Where: Wayne County, Mississippi (32.4° N, 89.4° W: paleocoordinates 32.7° N, 82.9° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Red Bluff Clay Formation (Vicksburg Group), Rupelian (33.9 - 28.1 Ma)
• formation-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 98671: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Ursula Smith on 17.10.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Acteon annectens Meyer 1885 snail | |
Sulcocypraea healeyi Aldrich 1923 snail | |
Scaphopoda | |
Fustiaria (Laevidentalium) subcompressa tusk shell | |
Bivalvia | |
"Astarte" triangulata Meyer 1886 clam | |
"Spondylus (Spondylus) dumosus" = Spondylus dumosus, "Chlamys (Aequipecten) cocoana" = Aequipecten, Eburneopecten (Eburneopecten) subminutus
"Spondylus (Spondylus) dumosus" = Spondylus dumosus Morton 1834 scallop
"Chlamys (Aequipecten) cocoana" = Aequipecten scallop
Eburneopecten (Eburneopecten) subminutus Aldrich 1903 scallop |