MGS 128 (Cretaceous to of the United States)

Also known as Natchez trace parkway locality

Where: Mississippi (32.6° N, 89.5° W: paleocoordinates 35.8° N, 61.6° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Globotruncanita elevata foram zone, Coffee Sand Formation (Selma Group), Early/Lower Campanian to Early/Lower Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• Coffee Sand ranges from the Globotruncanita elevata to Globotruncana ventricosa zone according to Mancini et al. (1996).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; sandstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: D. T. Dockery. 1993. The Streptoneuran gastropods, exclusive of the Stenoglossa, of the coffee sand (Campanian) of Northeastern Mississippi. Bulletin (Mississippi Office of Geology) 129:1-191 [M. Kosnik/M. Kosnik]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 7457: authorized by Matt Kosnik, entered by Matt Kosnik on 18.07.2000

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Taxonomic list

unclassified
  -
? Latiata sp.
Latiata? sp.
Gastropoda
 Seguenzioidea - Eucyclidae
Calliomphalus (Calliomphalus) paucispirilus Sohl 1964 snail
Calliomphalus (Calliomphalus) paucispirilus Sohl
Calliomphalus (Planolateralus) tuberculosus Sohl 1964 snail
Calliomphalus (Planolateralus) tuberculosus Sohl
 Architaenioglossa - Ampullinidae
Pseudamaura lepta Sohl 1964 snail
Pseudamaura lepta Sohl
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
Turritella quadrilira Johnson 1898 turret shell
Turritella quadrilira Johnson
"Haustator trilira" = Turritella trilira Conrad 1860 turret shell
Turritella trilira Conrad
Laxispira lumbricalis Gabb 1877 turret shell
Laxispira lumbricalis Gabb
 Cerithioidea - Potamididae
Tympanotonus (Exechocirsus) cowickeensis Sohl 1964 horn snail
Tympanotonus (Exechocirsus) cowickeensis Sohl
 Cerithioidea - Pickworthiidae
Urceolabrum mantachieensis Sohl 1964 snail
Urceolabrum mantachieensis Sohl
 Neotaenioglossa - Calyptraeidae
Thylacus cretaceus Conrad 1860 slipper shell
Thylacus cretaceus Conrad
 Neotaenioglossa - Trichotropidae
Cerithioderma nodosa Dockery 1993 snail
Cerithioderma nodosa Dockery
 Sorbeoconcha - Cassiopidae
Gymnentome unicarinata Dockery 1993 snail
Gymnentome unicarinata Dockery
 Sorbeoconcha - Aporrhaidae
Graciliala johnsoni Stephenson 1923 snail
Graciliala johnsoni (Stephenson)
Perissoptera prolabiata mississippiensis Tate 1865 snail
Perissoptera prolabiata mississippiensis Dockery
 Sorbeoconcha - Naticidae
Amaurellina stephensoni moon snail
Amaurellina stephensoni Wade
Gyrodes (Gyrodes) major Wade 1926 moon snail
Gyrodes (Gyrodes) major Wade
Gyrodes (Sohlella) spillmani Gabb 1861 moon snail
Gyrodes (Sohlella) spillmani Gabb
Euspira rectilabrum Conrad 1858 moon snail
Euspira rectilabrum Conrad