Where: Clarke County, Mississippi (31.9° N, 88.7° W: paleocoordinates 32.5° N, 79.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Moodys Branch Formation (Jackson Group), Bartonian (41.3 - 38.0 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; unlithified, burrowed, glauconitic, argillaceous, calcareous siltstone

Size class: mesofossils

Collection methods: Collected by G.D. Harris, October 1940.

Primary reference: K. V. Palmer and D. C. Brann. 1965. Catalogue of the Paleocene and Eocene mollusca of the southern and eastern United States. Part 1. Pelecypoda, Amphineura, Peteropoda, Scaphopoda and Cephalopoda. Bulletins of American Paleontology 48:1-471 [M. Kosnik/M. Kosnik/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 91097: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Laurie Eccles on 04.09.2009, edited by Ursula Smith

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