Where: Clarke County, Mississippi (31.9° N, 88.7° W: paleocoordinates 32.1° N, 82.2° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Glendon Formation (Vicksburg Group), Rupelian (33.9 - 28.1 Ma)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: mesofossils
Preservation: original aragonite, original calcite
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 99716: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Laurie Eccles on 19.11.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea | |
"Schizaster (Paraster) americanus" = Schizaster americana
"Schizaster (Paraster) americanus" = Schizaster americana Clark and Twitchell 1915 heart urchin | |
Bivalvia | |
Glycymeris arctata Conrad 1848 clam |