Blue Spring (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as Hwy 9

Where: Lee County, Mississippi (34.4° N, 88.9° W: paleocoordinates 38.1° N, 65.8° W)

When: Ripley Formation (Selma Group), Maastrichtian (72.1 - 66.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; poorly lithified marl

• glauconitic marl with limey concretions

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by Christopher Garvie

Primary reference: W. J. Foster, C. L. Garvie, A. M. Weiss, A. D. Muscente, M. Aberhan, J. W. Counts, and R. C. Martindale. 2020. Resilience of marine invertebrate communities during the early Cenozoic hyperthermals. Scientific Reports 10:2176 [A. Miller/J. Sessa/W. Foster]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 205428: authorized by William Foster, entered by William Foster on 15.10.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Gastropoda
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
Turritella vertebroides
Turritella vertebroides Morton 1834 turret shell
Bivalvia
 Carditida - Crassatellidae
Crassatella sp.
Crassatella sp. Lamarck 1799 clam
 Nuculida - Nuculidae
Nucula percrassa