Also known as Bluff on N branch of Wilhite Creek, 3 miles S of Molino and 0.8 mile S of Mount Olivet school, Union Co., Miss.
Where: Union County, Mississippi (34.5° N, 89.0° W: paleocoordinates 38.1° N, 66.3° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Nostoceras alternatum ammonoid zone, Coon Creek Tongue Member (Ripley Formation), Early/Lower Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)
• Ammonoid zone from Cobban 1974 and Cobban and Kennedy 1995.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: mesofossils
Collection methods: USGS 712: Stanton 1889
Primary reference: N. F. Sohl. 1960. Archeogastropoda, Mesogastropoda and stratigraphy of the Ripley, Owl Creek, and Prairie Bluff Formations. US Geological Survey Professional Paper 331:1-151 [M. Kosnik/M. Kosnik]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 7479: authorized by Matt Kosnik, entered by Matt Kosnik on 18.07.2000
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Calliomphalus conanti" = Calliomphalus (Planolateralus) conanti
"Calliomphalus conanti" = Calliomphalus (Planolateralus) conanti Sohl 1960 snail Calliomphalus conanti Sohl
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"Pugnellus (Gymnarus) abnormalis" = Bizarrus abnormalis Wade 1926 snail Pugnellus (Gymnarus) abnormalis Wade
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