M 142 (Oligocene of the United States)

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

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Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Heterostropha - Acteonidae
Acteon annectens Meyer 1885 snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Eocypraeidae
Sulcocypraea healeyi Aldrich 1923 snail
Scaphopoda
 Dentaliida - Fustiariidae
Bivalvia
 Carditida - Astartidae
"Astarte" triangulata Meyer 1886 clam
 Poromyida - Verticordiidae
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
"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