Cut of southern railway, 3 mi SE of Corinth (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Alcorn County, Mississippi (34.9° N, 88.5° W: paleocoordinates 37.5° N, 59.1° W)

When: Coffee Formation (Selma Group), Campanian (83.6 - 72.1 Ma)

• Selma chalk

Environment/lithology: marine; chalk

• (Selma group), Light-gray cross-bedded to massive glauconitic sand and sandy clay and calcareous sandstone.

•Secondary unit descriptions from USGS Lexicon website (MS002) and MS007: Coffee Formation of Selma Group is the uppermost unit of Cretaceous age present in Tishomingo Co., and the only unit representing the Selma. No complete section is present in the report area as the unit is truncated by erosion. It is composed of very fine- to medium-grained, micaceous, glauconitic, quartz sand, thinly interbedded and interlaminated with light- to medium-gray, silty clay. The Coffee is replaced by the main body of chalky Selma strata in southern Lee and northwestern Itawamba Cos. The Tupelo Tongue is a very fossiliferous phase representing the southernmost extension of the Coffee Formation. Outcrop belt attains a maximum width of 8 mi in northwestern part of Tishomingo Co. Thickness is 150 ft at the surface of northwestern Tishomingo Co., 275 ft in Prentiss Co. to the south, and only about 100 ft in Lee Co. Disconformably overlies the Tombigbee Sand Member of the Eutaw Formation; unconformably underlies Tennessee River terrace deposits. Age is Late Cretaceous (Merrill and others, 1988).

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

• A convex fragment covered with tubercles (Enoploclytia (?) sp.);

Collected by L.W. Stephenson (6460) in 1909; reposited in the USNM

• U.S. National Museum, Cat. No. 73842 (Enoploclytia (?) sp.);

Primary reference: M. J. Rathbun. 1935. Fossil Crustacea of the Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain. Geological Society of America Special Paper (2)1-160 [C. Schweitzer/S. Yost]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 140912: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Samantha Yost on 19.03.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Erymidae
Enoploclytia ? sp. M'Coy 1849 decapod