Where: Pulaski County, Arkansas (34.7° N, 92.3° W: paleocoordinates 38.6° N, 72.0° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Midway Group, Danian to Danian (66.0 - 59.2 Ma)
• Clayton fm; uppermost Porters Creek fm, Matthews Landing beds; Kincaid fm
• 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 99175: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Laurie Eccles on 01.11.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Epitonium "sp. D" Bolten 1798 wentletrap | |
"Turritella alabamiensis" = Mesalia alabamiensis
"Turritella alabamiensis" = Mesalia alabamiensis De Gregorio 1890 turret shell | |
Priscoficus (Fulguroficus) spp. Conrad 1866 fig shell | |
Lacunaria "sp. A" Conrad 1866 moon snail |