Sohl and Koch OFR # 53: Late/Upper Maastrichtian, Mississippi

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda - Nautilida - Nautilidae
Eutrephoceras perlata (Morton 1834)
1 specimen
recombined as Eutrephoceras perlatus
Eutrephoceras perlata Morton
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Scaphitidae
Discoscaphites iris Conrad 1858
23 specimens
Discoscaphites iris Conrad
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Baculitidae
Baculites (Eubaculites) carinatus Morton 1834
48 specimens
recombined as Eubaculites carinatus
Baculites (Eubaculites) carinatus
Gastropoda - Turritellidae
Turritella vertebroides Morton 1834
1 specimen
Turritella vertebroides Morton
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Turbinellidae
Napulus sp. Stephenson 1941
1 specimen
Napulus sp.
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Volutidae
Volutomorpha sp. Gabb 1877
2 specimens
Volutomorpha sp.
Liopeplum rugosum Stephenson 1955
1 specimen
Liopeplum rugosum Stephenson
Gastropoda - Naticidae
Gyrodes petrosus
1 specimen
Gyrodes petrosus (Morton)
Bivalvia - Arcida - Parallelodontidae
Nemodon eufaulensis
1 specimen
Nemodon eufaulensis (Gabb) [entered as Nemodon eufaulensis]
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Bakevelliidae
Gervillia ensiformis Conrad 1858
8 specimens
recombined as Gervilliopsis ensiformis
Gervillia ensiformis (Conrad)
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Pinnidae
Pinna (Pinna) laqueata Conrad 1858
6 specimens
Pinna (Pinna) laqueata Conrad
Bivalvia - Mytilida - Mytilidae
Lycettia tippanus
2 specimens
Lycettia tippanus (Conrad)
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Arcticidae
Veniella conradi Morton 1833
4 specimens
Veniella conradi (Morton)
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
Aphrodina (Aphrodina) tippana
1 specimen
Aphrodina (Aphrodina) tippana (Con
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Mactridae
Cymbophora sp. Gabb 1869
1 specimen
Cymbophora sp.
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
Granocardium (Granocardium) sp. (Gabb 1869)
1 specimen
synonym of Trachycardium
Granocardium (Granocardium) sp.
Granocardium (Granocardium) tippananum
3 specimens
synonym of Trachycardium
Granocardium (Granocardium) tippan
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Tellinidae
Linearia pectinis
1 specimen
original and current combination Linearis
Linearia pectinis Stephenson
Bivalvia - Carditida - Crassatellidae
Crassatella vadosa Morton 1834
2 specimens
Crassatella vadosa vadosa Morton
Bivalvia - Nuculida - Nuculidae
Nucula percrassa
2 specimens
Nucula percrassa Conrad
Malacostraca
Malacostraca indet. (Latreille 1802)
Crab parts
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Mississippi County:Tippah
Coordinates: 34.6° North, 88.8° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:38.2° North, 66.1° West
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Maastrichtian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 8
*Period:Late/Upper Cretaceous *Epoch:Late/Upper Senonian
*International age/stage:Middle - Late/Upper Maastrichtian
Key time interval:Late/Upper Maastrichtian Ammonoid zone: Discoscaphites conradi
Age range of interval:70.60000 - 66.00000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Prairie Bluff Member:lower
Stratigraphic resolution:member
Stratigraphy comments: Haustator bilira assemblage zone
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:gray,yellow silty sandstone
Environment:marine indet. Tectonic setting:passive margin
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original calcite,replaced with calcite
Size of fossils:mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some macrofossils
Collection methods:bulk,field collection
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Museum repositories:USGS
Collection method comments: Sohl collection
Metadata
Also known as:S Dumas; USGS # 25488
Database number:4134
Authorizer:M. Kosnik Enterer:M. Kosnik
Modifier:M. Manojlovic Research group:GCP,marine invertebrate
Created:1999-08-14 13:00:00 Last modified:2016-07-25 19:22:01
Access level:the public Released:1999-08-14 13:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

283. N. F. Sohl and C. F. Koch. 1983. Upper Cretaceous (Maestrichtian) Mollusca from the Haustator bilira Assemblage Zone in the East Gulf Coastal Plain. USGS Open File Report 83-451:1-239 [M. Kosnik/M. Kosnik/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

29915 J. A. Sessa, T. J. Bralower, M. E. Patzkowsky, J. C. Handley, and L. C. Ivany. 2012. Environmental and biological controls on the diversity and ecology of Late Cretaceous through early Paleogene marine ecosystems in the US Gulf Coastal Plain. Paleobiology 38(2):218-239 [M. Patzkowsky/J. Sessa/J. Sessa]