TU Loc. 76 - Mint Springs Bayou [Mint Springs Marl] (Oligocene of the United States)

Where: Warren County, Mississippi (32.4° N, 90.9° W: paleocoordinates 32.8° N, 84.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Mint Springs Formation (Vicksburg Group), Rupelian (33.9 - 28.1 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Mint Springs Fm of the Vicksburg Gp, for which lithostratigraphic relations are not discussed. AGE: Lower Oligocene = Rupelian. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within formation.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; unlithified marl

• ENVIRONMENT: Not stated in text.
• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Marl. 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 Unpublished notes [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/P. Wagner]more details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 92699: 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.
Gastropoda
 Neogastropoda - Muricidae