SW bluff of Yellow Creek: Danian, Mississippi
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Cephalopoda
- Nautilida
- Hercoglossidae
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Cimomia vestali
Miller and Thompson 1933
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Mississippi |
| Coordinates: | 33.2° North, 88.7° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 36.4° North, 68.4° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||
| Geographic resolution: | hand sample |
Time
| Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Paleocene |
| Stage: | Danian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 1 |
| Key time interval: | Danian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 66 - 61.6 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | poorly lithified not reported |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Unknown. Much of the formation is composed of calcareous sandstones, but also marls and sandy packstones. LITHIFICATION: Poorly lithified based on figured specimen. | |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
| Geology comments: ENVIRONMENT: Not stated, but probably shallow shelf setting. Clayton elsewhere range from just below storm wavebase, is dominantly offshore transition, with some shoreface and perhaps foreshore (Schulte & Speijer, 2009). | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | mold/impression |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | medium |
| Fragmentation: | none |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | some macrofossils |
| Collection methods: | surface (in situ),field collection |
| Collection size: | 1 specimens |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | SUI |
| Collection method comments: COLLECTOR: Unknown. REPOSITORY: State University of Iowa. | |
| Taxonomic list comments:COVERAGE: Limited to Nautiloidea described in primary publication. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication with modern nomenclature and species-resolution identifications. | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | M 498 | ||
| Database number: | 80971 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Hendy | Enterer: | A. Hendy |
| Modifier: | M. Clapham | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2008-05-24 16:04:14 | Last modified: | 2019-08-06 21:28:36 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2008-05-24 16:04:14 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 27243. | A. K. Miller and M. L. Thompson. 1933. The nautiloid cephalopods of the Midway Group. Journal of Paleontology 7(3):298-324 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/A. Hendy] |
Secondary references:
| 27587 | A. K. Miller. 1947. Tertiary nautiloids of the Americas. Geological Society of America Memoir 23:1-234 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy] | |
| 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] |