M 355 (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Hinds County, Mississippi (32.3° N, 90.2° W: paleocoordinates 33.1° N, 81.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Moodys Branch Formation (Jackson 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 92177: 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
 Trochoidea - Solariellidae
Solariella cancellata Conrad 1833 snail
Solariella cancellata jacksonia
 Trochoidea - Skeneidae
Solariorbis subangulatus Meyer 1886 snail
Solariorbis quadrangularis Meyer 1886 snail
 Vanikoroidea - Eulimidae
Melanella jacksonensis de Gregorio 1890 snail
 Neogastropoda - Costellariidae
Conomitra jacksonensis Cooke 1926 ribbed mitre
 Sorbeoconcha - Tornidae
"Teinostoma (Idioraphe) verrilli" = Teinostoma (Idioraphie), Teinostoma moodiense
"Teinostoma (Idioraphe) verrilli" = Teinostoma (Idioraphie) snail
Teinostoma moodiense Harris and Palmer 1947 snail
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Dendrophylliidae
Endopachys maclurii Lea 1833 stony coral