Natchez Trace Parkway, near Chapelville (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Lee County, Mississippi (34.4° N, 88.6° W: paleocoordinates 37.2° N, 60.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Globotruncana ventricosa foram zone, Tupelo Tongue Member (Coffee Sand Formation), Middle Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• Tupelo Tongue of the Coffee Sand is Globotruncana ventricosa zone according to Mancini et al. (1996). Chapelville section.

Environment/lithology: marine; shale

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: D. T. Dockery, III and S. P. Jennings. 1988. Stratigraphy of the Tupelo Tongue of the Coffee Sand (upper Campanian), northern Lee County, Mississippi. Mississippi Geology 9(1):1-7 [M. Patzkowsky/K. Layou]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 3867: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Karen Layou on 11.08.1999

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Placenticeratidae
Placenticeras sp. Meek 1876 ammonite
originally entered as "Placenteras sp."
Bivalvia
 Arcida - Cucullaeidae
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
 Cardiida - Veneridae
Cyprimeria alta venus clam
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
"Pachycardium stantoni" = Protocardia (Pachycardium)
"Pachycardium stantoni" = Protocardia (Pachycardium) cockle