SW bluff of Yellow Creek (Paleocene of the United States)

Also known as M 498

Where: Mississippi (33.2° N, 88.7° W: paleocoordinates 36.4° N, 68.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• hand sample-level geographic resolution

When: Clayton Formation (Midway Group), Danian (66.0 - 61.6 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Clayton Fm of the Midway Group. AGE: Early Paleocene. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position in Clayton Fm.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; poorly lithified lithology not reported

• ENVIRONMENT: Not stated, but probably shallow shelf setting. Clayton elsewhere range from just below storm wavebase, is dominantly offshore transition, with some shoreface and perhaps foreshore (Schulte & Speijer, 2009).
• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Unknown. Much of the formation is composed of calcareous sandstones, but also marls and sandy packstones. LITHIFICATION: Poorly lithified based on figured specimen.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Reposited in the SUI

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• COLLECTOR: Unknown. REPOSITORY: State University of Iowa.

Primary reference: A. K. Miller and M. L. Thompson. 1933. The nautiloid cephalopods of the Midway Group. Journal of Paleontology 7(3):298-324 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 80971: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 24.05.2008

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Limited to Nautiloidea described in primary publication. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication with modern nomenclature and species-resolution identifications.
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Cephalopoda
 Nautilida - Hercoglossidae
Cimomia vestali
Cimomia vestali Miller and Thompson 1933 nautiloid