Also known as Fossil Gulch, Riverside Park

Where: Hinds County, Mississippi (32.3° N, 90.2° W: paleocoordinates 33.1° N, 81.3° W)

• coordinate based on unpublished field data

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Moodys Branch Formation (Jackson Group), Bartonian (41.3 - 38.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; unlithified, argillaceous, calcareous siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original aragonite, original calcite

Collected by P. G. Harnik in 2004

Collection methods: bulk, mechanical, sieve,

Primary reference: P. G. Harnik. 2011. Direct and indirect effects of biological factors on extinction risk in fossil bivalves. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 108 (33):13594-13599 [P. Harnik/P. Harnik]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 117473: authorized by Paul Harnik, entered by Paul Harnik on 22.09.2011, edited by Mark Uhen

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