Also known as Roadcuts on old Mississippi State Route 8, about 4.7 miles W of Buena Vista, on W-facing slope of tributary of Houlka creek, Chickasaw Co., Miss.
Where: Chickasaw County, Mississippi (33.9° N, 89.0° W: paleocoordinates 37.6° N, 66.1° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Keownville? Member (Ripley Formation), Maastrichtian (72.1 - 66.0 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; silty, sandy limestone
Size class: mesofossils
Collection methods: USGS 25419: N.F. Sohl 1952
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 7597: authorized by Matt Kosnik, entered by Matt Kosnik on 18.07.2000
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Exogyra costata" = Exogyra (Exogyra) costata
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