MGS 127 (Cretaceous to of the United States)

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 7459: authorized by Matt Kosnik, entered by Matt Kosnik on 18.07.2000

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Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Neritoidea - Neritidae
Neritina sp. Lamarck 1816 snail
Neritina sp.
 Sorbeoconcha - Naticidae
Gyrodes (Gyrodes) major Wade 1926 moon snail
Gyrodes (Gyrodes) major Wade
 Sorbeoconcha - Triforidae
Variseila meeki Wade 1926 snail
Variseila meeki Wade
 Sorbeoconcha - Rissoidae
Alvania tallahatchiensis snail
Alvania tallahatchiensis Sohl
 Sorbeoconcha - Xenophoridae
"Xenophora (Xenophora) leprosa" = Xenophora (Endoptygma) leprosa
"Xenophora (Xenophora) leprosa" = Xenophora (Endoptygma) leprosa Morton 1834 carrier shell
Xenophora (Xenophora) leprosa (Morton)
 Vanikoroidea - Eulimidae
"Cossmannia tennesseensis" = Anteglosia tennesseensis
"Cossmannia tennesseensis" = Anteglosia tennesseensis Wade 1926 snail
Cossmannia tennesseensis Wade