Also known as Roadcut in Prairie bluff chalk, 1.5 miles E of Mississippi State College at Starkville, Oktibbeha Co., Miss.
Where: Okitibbeha County, Mississippi (33.5° N, 88.8° W: paleocoordinates 37.0° N, 66.5° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Discoscaphites conradi ammonoid zone, Prairie Bluff Formation, Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: mesofossils
Collection methods: L.C. Johnson 1889
Primary reference: N. F. Sohl. 1960. Archeogastropoda, Mesogastropoda and stratigraphy of the Ripley, Owl Creek, and Prairie Bluff Formations. US Geological Survey Professional Paper 331:1-151 [M. Kosnik/M. Kosnik]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 7471: authorized by Matt Kosnik, entered by Matt Kosnik on 18.07.2000
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
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