MGS 7, Sewer excavation across Town Creek, Jackson: Bartonian, Mississippi

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Dendrophylliidae
Endopachys maclurii (Lea 1833)
Dockery 1980
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Acteonidae
Tornatellaea lata (Conrad 1834)
Gastropoda - Epitoniidae
Tenuiscala aspersa
Cirsotrema (Coroniscala) nassulum (Conrad 1854)
Cirsotrema (Coroniscala) nassulum creolum
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Fasciolariidae
Mazzalina inaurata (Conrad 1833)
Mazzalina inaurata oweni
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Melongenidae
Busycon (Echinofulgur) branneri
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Olivellidae
Agaronia media (Meyer 1885)
Gastropoda - Pediculariidae
Jenneria ludoviciana (Johnson 1899)
Gastropoda - Seraphsidae
Seraphs sp. Montfort 1810
Gastropoda - Rostellariidae
Calyptraphorus stamineus
Dientomochilus (Dasyostoma) rugostomum (Johnson 1899)
Cephalopoda - Nautilida - Aturiidae
Aturia alabamensis (Morton 1834)
Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Yoldiidae
Yoldia (Calorhadia) mater Meyer 1885
Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Yoldia (Orthoyoldia) rubamnis
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Gastrochaenidae
Gastrochaena (Gastrochaena) mississippiensis Harris 1946
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
Pitar (Katherinella) trigoniata
Bivalvia - Carditida - Carditidae
Venericardia (Venericor) apodensata Gardner and Bowles 1939
Bivalvia - Arcida - Arcidae
Barbatia (Cucullaearca) cuculloides (Conrad 1833)
Bivalvia - Arcida - Glycymerididae
Glycymeris (Glycymeris) filosa Conrad 1854
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Pycnodonte (Pycnodonte) trigonalis Conrad 1854
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Mississippi County:Hinds
Coordinates: 32.3° North, 90.2° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:33.1° North, 81.3° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Paleogene Epoch: Eocene
Stage: Bartonian 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 3
Key time interval: Bartonian
Age range of interval: 41.2 - 37.71 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Jackson Formation:Moodys Branch
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "siliciclastic"
Environment:transition zone/lower shoreface
Geology comments: Sediment reworked in the offshore environment by wave turbulence and burrowing organisms. A deeper facies than the northern shelf, which contains cross-bedding, suggesting an offshore-transition environment.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:178662
Authorizer:P. Wagner, M. Clapham Enterer:P. Wagner, M. Clapham
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2016-05-09 21:39:34 Last modified:2019-09-09 21:19:01
Access level:the public Released:2016-05-09 21:39:34
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
11841. D. T. Dockery. 1977. Mollusca of the Moodys Branch Formation, Mississippi. Bulletin - Mississippi Geological, Economic and Topographic Survey 120 [M. Kosnik/M. Kosnik/M. Kosnik]

Secondary references:

11842 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]