Where: Warren County, Mississippi (32.4° N, 90.9° W: paleocoordinates 32.7° N, 84.4° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Vicksburg Group, Rupelian (33.9 - 28.1 Ma)
• Likely Red Bluff
• group-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 98525: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Ursula Smith on 07.10.2010, edited by Laurie Eccles
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Scaphopoda | |
Fustiaria (Laevidentalium) subcompressa tusk shell | |
Bivalvia | |
Panopea (Panopea) oblongata Conrad 1848 clam | |
Abra (Abra) perovata abra | |
Gastropoda | |
"Creseis hastata" = Creseis spina
"Creseis hastata" = Creseis spina Reuss 1867 snail | |
Scobinella famelica Casey 1903 turrid | |
Agaronia mississippiensis Conrad 1848 snail | |
Xenophora humilis Conrad 1848 carrier shell |