Riverside Park (H-79-11-11): Lutetian - Priabonian, Mississippi

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Flabellidae
Flabellum cuneiforme (Lonsdale 1845)
1 specimen
wailesii
Bivalvia - Nuculida - Nuculidae
Nucula sp. Lamarck 1799
8 specimens
Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Nuculana sp. Link 1807
6 specimens
Bivalvia - Arcida - Arcidae
Barbatia sp. Gray 1842
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Arcida - Limopsidae
Limopsis radiata Meyer 1885
6 specimens
Bivalvia - Lucinida - Lucinidae
? Lucina curta (Conrad 1865)
3 specimens
originally entered as "? Lucina curta"
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Kelliellidae
Kelliella boettgeri ()
74 specimens
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Semelidae
? Abra sp. Lamarck 1818
1 specimen
originally entered as "? Abra sp."
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Tellinidae
Tellinidae indet. Blainville 1814
1 specimen
Tellinids
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
Nemocardium nicoletti
1 specimen
    = Nemocardium nicolletti Conrad 1854
Palmer and Brann 1965
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Corbulidae
Corbula sp. Bruguière 1789
31 specimens
Bivalvia - Poromyida - Verticordiidae
? Verticordia cossmanni Dall 1903
3 specimens
originally entered as "? Verticordia cossmanni"
Bivalvia - Carditida - Carditidae
Venericardia diversidentata Meyer 1885
5 specimens
Bivalvia - Carditida - Astartidae
Lirodiscus jacksonensis Meyer 1885
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Carditida - Crassatellidae
Bathytormus flexurus Conrad 1854
4 specimens
Scaphopoda - Dentaliida - Dentaliidae
Dentalium sp. Linnaeus 1758
3 specimens
Gastropoda
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795
2 specimens
misc. gastropods, 2 species?
Gastropoda - Turritellidae
Turritella sp. Lamarck 1799
7 specimens
Gastropoda - Neotaenioglossa - Calyptraeidae
Calyptraea sp. Lamarck 1799
1 specimen
originally entered as "Calyptrea sp."
Gastropoda - Hipponicidae
Hipponix pygmaea
5 specimens
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Mississippi County:Hinds
Coordinates: 32.3° North, 90.2° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:33.2° North, 80.8° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Paleogene Epoch: Eocene
Stage: Lutetian - Priabonian 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 2 - Cenozoic 3
*Period:Tertiary
Key time interval: Lutetian - Priabonian
Age range of interval: 47.8 - 33.9 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Yazoo Clay
Local section:H-79-11 Local bed:11
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: "Late Lutetian - early Priabonian." (T. Hansen, pers. comm.)
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:burrows unlithified silty,calcareous "shale"
Environment:offshore Tectonic setting:passive margin
Geology comments: "very poor preservation, shells were identified and counted by sorting through the sediment by hand. too fragile to be sieved."
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:bulk,mechanical,field collection
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Metadata
Also known as:(H-79-11)
Database number:1427
Authorizer:T. Hansen, J. Sessa Enterer:M. Sommers, J. Sessa
Modifier:J. Alroy Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:1999-04-13 17:18:56 Last modified:2006-09-14 19:56:40
Access level:the public Released:2000-11-20 13:53:11
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

39. S. R. Elder. 1981. Fossil assemblages of a marine transgressive sand, Moody''s Branch Formation (Upper Eocene), Louisiana and Mississippi. Unpublished M.A. Thesis, University of Texas at Austin 1-140 [T. Hansen/M. Sommers/A. Clement]

Secondary references:

11845 K. V. Palmer and D. C. Brann. 1965. Catalogue of the Paleocene and Eocene mollusca of the southern and eastern United States. Part 1. Pelecypoda, Amphineura, Peteropoda, Scaphopoda and Cephalopoda. Bulletins of American Paleontology 48:1-471 [M. Kosnik/M. Kosnik/J. Alroy]