Also known as Pit of Mississippi Minerals Co., 3.4 miles NE of Pontotoc, Pontotoc Co., Miss.
Where: Pontotoc County, Mississippi (34.2° N, 90.0° W: paleocoordinates 38.2° N, 66.9° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Ripley Formation, Maastrichtian (72.1 - 66.0 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: mesofossils
Collection methods: USGS 18881: L.W. Stephenson 1942
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 7587: authorized by Matt Kosnik, entered by Matt Kosnik on 18.07.2000
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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