MGS 24 (Eocene to of the United States)

Where: Lauderdale County, Mississippi (32.4° N, 88.7° W: paleocoordinates 34.2° N, 75.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Basic City Shale Member (Tallahatta Formation), Ypresian to Ypresian (56.0 - 41.3 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: mesofossils

Primary reference: D. T. Dockery. 1980. Invertebrate Macropaleontolgy of the Clarke County Mississippi Area. Bulletin - Mississippi Geological, Economic and Topographic Survey 122 [M. Kosnik/M. Kosnik/L. Eccles]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 99670: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Laurie Eccles on 18.11.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae