Also known as Roadcut overlooking Bob Miller Creek on old Tupelo Road, 5 miles E 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: lower Member (Ripley Formation), Maastrichtian (72.1 - 66.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; gray, silty limestone

Size class: mesofossils

Collection methods: USGS 19086: W.H. Monroe 1940

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 7589: authorized by Matt Kosnik, entered by Matt Kosnik on 18.07.2000

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