M 422 (Oligocene of the United States)

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

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Taxonomic list

Scaphopoda
 Dentaliida - Fustiariidae
Bivalvia
 Hiatellida - Hiatellidae
 Cardiida - Semelidae
Gastropoda
 Thecosomata - Cavoliniidae
"Creseis hastata" = Creseis spina
"Creseis hastata" = Creseis spina Reuss 1867 snail
 Neogastropoda - Turridae
Scobinella famelica Casey 1903 turrid
 Neogastropoda - Olivellidae
Agaronia mississippiensis Conrad 1848 snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Xenophoridae
Xenophora humilis Conrad 1848 carrier shell