Also known as Dea's bluff on Mooney's branch of big hatchie creek, Tippah Co., MS
Where: Tippah County, Mississippi (34.7° N, 89.0° W: paleocoordinates 38.3° N, 66.2° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Nostoceras alternatum ammonoid zone, Coon Creek Tongue Member (Ripley Formation), Early/Lower Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)
• Ammonoid zone from Cobban 1974 and Cobban and Kennedy 1995.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; gray, silty, calcareous sandstone
Size class: mesofossils
Collection methods: Johnson 1888
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: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 7474: authorized by Matt Kosnik, entered by Matt Kosnik on 18.07.2000
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
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