Where: Lauderdale County, Mississippi (32.4° N, 88.7° W: paleocoordinates 34.5° N, 74.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Bashi Member (Hatchetigbee Bluff Formation), Ypresian (56.0 - 47.8 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; unlithified, glauconitic, gray sandstone

Size class: mesofossils

Collection methods: bulk

• Sample was collected by David Dockery and is reposited at the MS Dept of Environmental Quality. Gastropod shells were only counted if they contained the apex of the shell; bivalve shells were only counted if they contained the umbo.

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Primary reference: J. A. Sessa, T. J. Bralower, M. E. Patzkowsky, J. C. Handley, and L. C. Ivany. 2012. Environmental and biological controls on the diversity and ecology of Late Cretaceous through early Paleogene marine ecosystems in the US Gulf Coastal Plain. Paleobiology 38(2):218-239 [M. Patzkowsky/J. Sessa/J. Sessa]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 89872: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Laurie Eccles on 19.06.2009, edited by Pete Wagner

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