Sohl and Koch OFR # 85: Late/Upper Maastrichtian, Mississippi

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Naticidae
Amaurellina stephensoni
1 specimen
Amaurellina stephensoni (Wade)
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Fasciolariidae
Graphidula sp. Stephenson 1941
1 specimen
Graphidula sp.
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Arcticidae
Veniella conradi Morton 1833
1 specimen
Veniella conradi (Morton)
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Anomiidae
Paranomia scabra
8 specimens
Paranomia scabra (Morton)
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Flemingostreidae
Cubitostrea tecticosta (Gabb 1860)
3 specimens
Cubitostrea tecticosta (Gabb)
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Pycnodonte vesicularis (Lamarck 1806)
2 specimens
recombined as Pycnodonta vesicularis
Pycnodonte vesicularis Lamarck
Exogyra costata (Say 1820)
2 specimens
original and current combination Exogyra (Exogyra) costata
Exogyra costata Say
Bivalvia - Arcida - Cucullaeidae
Cucullaea (Idonearca) capax Conrad 1858
1 specimen
recombined as Idonearca capax
Cucullaea (Idonearca) capax Conrad
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Mississippi County:Okitibbeha
Coordinates: 33.5° North, 88.8° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:37.1° North, 66.4° 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:72.10000 - 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 lithified sandy lime mudstone
Environment:marine indet. Tectonic setting:passive margin
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original calcite
Size of fossils:mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:bulk,field collection
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Museum repositories:USGS
Collection method comments: Sohl collection
Metadata
Also known as:N Starkville; USGS # 25437
Database number:4159
Authorizer:M. Kosnik Enterer:M. Kosnik
Modifier:U. Smith Research group:GCP,marine invertebrate
Created:1999-08-14 13:00:00 Last modified:2010-10-14 05:27:33
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]