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 | |
Chlamys burlesonensis scallop |