Pinkston Hill (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Scott County, Mississippi (32.3° N, 89.4° W: paleocoordinates 32.8° N, 81.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Pachuta Member (Yazoo Formation), Priabonian (38.0 - 33.9 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: foreshore; claystone

• The Yazoo Clay Formation exhibits a shallow subtropical inner shelf environment with abundant life evolving into a deeper more clay-dominated middle shelf environment.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original phosphate

Primary reference: H. R. Bergquist. 1942. Scott County Geology. Mississippi State Geological Survey Bulletin 49:1-146 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 45636: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 20.11.2004

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
Turritella sp. Lamarck 1799 turret shell
Bivalvia
 Pholadida - Corbulidae
 Cardiida - Veneridae
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
"Protocardia nicolleti" = Nemocardium nicolletti
"Protocardia nicolleti" = Nemocardium nicolletti Conrad 1854 cockle
 Carditida - Carditidae
"Venericardia rotunda" = Venericardia (Rotundicardia) rotunda
"Venericardia rotunda" = Venericardia (Rotundicardia) rotunda Lea 1833 clam
Mammalia
 Archaeoceti -
 Cetacea - Basilosauridae
Basilosaurus cetoides Owen 1839 whale