Where: Newton County, Mississippi (32.3° N, 89.2° W: paleocoordinates 33.0° N, 80.2° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Cook Mountain Formation (Claiborne Group), Bartonian (41.3 - 38.0 Ma)
• formation-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 99735: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Laurie Eccles on 19.11.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Bivalvia | |
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Venericardia (Rotundicardia) rotunda Lea 1833 clam | |
| Gastropoda | |
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Architectonica (Granosolarium) ornata Harris and Palmer 1947 sundial | |
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Sinum inconstans moon snail
Sinum bilix Conrad 1833 moon snail | |
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Hexaplex (Hexaplex) vanuxemi Conrad 1865 murex snail
Coralliophila (Timothia) aldrichi murex snail
Typhis (Typhina) palmerae Gertman 1969 murex snail | |
"? Coronia casteri" = Gemmula (Coronia)
"? Coronia casteri" = Gemmula (Coronia) turrid | |
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Cochlespira sp. Conrad 1865 snail | |
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Terebrifusus sp. Conrad 1865 true whelk
Penion ? sp. Fischer 1884 true whelk | |
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Levifusus sp. Conrad 1865 snail | |
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Volvaria (Volvariella) reticulata Johnson 1899 mitre shell | |
"Distorsio (Personella) septemdentata" = Sassia (Personella) septemdentata
"Distorsio (Personella) septemdentata" = Sassia (Personella) septemdentata Gabb 1860 triton shell | |
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Cerithiella nassula snail | |
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Melanella sp. Bowdich 1822 snail | |
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Cirsotrema (Coroniscala) newtonensis wentletrap | |
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