TU 226 - Hiwannee [Red Bluff Clay] (Oligocene of the United States)

Where: Wayne County, Mississippi (31.8° N, 88.7° W: paleocoordinates 32.1° N, 82.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Red Bluff Clay Formation, Early/Lower Oligocene (33.9 - 28.4 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Red Bluff Clay, for which lithostratigraphic relations are not discussed. AGE: Lower Oligocene. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within formation.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; unlithified claystone

• ENVIRONMENT: Not stated in text.
• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Clay. LITHIFICATION: Unlithified, on the basis of figured specimen.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original aragonite

Collected by Vokes & Vokes; reposited in the USNM

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• COLLECTOR: E. Vokes and H. Vokes. REPOSITORY: USNM.

Primary reference: E. H. Vokes and H. E. Vokes. 2000. Catalogue of Tulane University fossil localities. Unpublished notes [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 92691: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 24.11.2009

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Limited to taxa described in text, and subsequent publications. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication with modern nomenclature and species-resolution identifications.
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Gastropoda
 Neogastropoda - Muricidae
Dermomurex (Takia) cookei2, Typhis (Typhina) mississippiensis n. sp.1
Dermomurex (Takia) cookei2 Vokes 1975 murex snail
Typhis (Typhina) mississippiensis n. sp.1 Gertman 1969 murex snail
1Gertman 1969; 2Vokes 1975