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 | |
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Bivalvia | |
Exogyra erraticostata oyster | |
Cyprimeria alta venus clam | |
"Pachycardium stantoni" = Protocardia (Pachycardium)
"Pachycardium stantoni" = Protocardia (Pachycardium) cockle |