Also known as Roadcut 2.25 miles (airline) NE of Houlka, Chickasaw Co., Miss.

Where: Chickasaw County, Mississippi (33.9° N, 89.0° W: paleocoordinates 37.5° 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; silty lime mudstone

Size class: mesofossils

Collection methods: N.F. Sohl 1951

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 7598: authorized by Matt Kosnik, entered by Matt Kosnik on 18.07.2000

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