Also known as Locality AS-5; Little River

Where: Little River County, Arkansas (34.0° N, 94.1° W: paleocoordinates 38.1° N, 65.7° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Marsupites testudinarum other zone, Ozan Formation, Early/Lower Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; shelly/skeletal, gray, sandy, calcareous claystone and coarse-grained, glauconitic, shelly/skeletal sandstone

Size class: mesofossils

Preservation: shellbed

Collected by N. G. Shaw in 1961

Collection methods: bulk,

• LSU collection

•specimens from "chalky and marly sediments" (presumably not including this collection) were heated and "soaked in varsol (Esso solvent)," boiled, and "washed over a 150-mesh screen"

Primary reference: N. G. Shaw. 1967. Cheilostomata from Gulfian (Upper Cretaceous) rocks of southwestern Arkansas. Journal of Paleontology 41(6):1393-1432 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 90501: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 03.08.2009

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