Where: Clarke County, Mississippi (32.2° N, 88.8° W: paleocoordinates 33.4° N, 77.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Viesca Member (Weches Formation), Lutetian (47.8 - 41.3 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 98504: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Ursula Smith on 07.10.2010

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