Where: Clarke County, Mississippi (32.2° N, 88.8° W: paleocoordinates 32.9° N, 79.9° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Cook Mountain Formation (Claiborne Group), Bartonian (41.3 - 38.0 Ma)
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: mesofossils
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 92172: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Laurie Eccles on 02.11.2009, edited by Ursula Smith
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Lyrischapa harrisi Aldrich 1911 volute | |
Bivalvia | |
Pteropsella lapidosa Conrad 1846 clam | |
Crassatella texalta Harris 1895 clam |