PBDB Collection

Sohl 033 (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as Roadcut on W wall of Tallabinnela creek, one-quarter of a mile E of troy, Pontotoc CO., Miss.

Where: Pontotoc County, Mississippi (34.2° N, 90.0° W: paleocoordinates 38.2° N, 66.9° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; gray, silty, sandy limestone

• Limestone, light-gray, higly silty, sandy, sparingly micaceous; fossiliferous, with fossils as both molds and prints and weathering out on surface

Size class: mesofossils

Collection methods: USGS 6471: L. W. Stephenson 1909; USGS 18628: W. H. Monroe 1941; USGS 25417: N. F. Sohl 1951

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 7486: authorized by Matt Kosnik, entered by Matt Kosnik on 18.07.2000

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Taxonomic list

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Gastropoda
Cerithioidea - Turritellidae	"Haustator trilira" = Turritella trilira, Turritella tippana, Turritella vertebroides "Haustator trilira" = Turritella trilira Conrad 1860 turret shell Turritella trilira Conrad Turritella tippana Conrad 1858 turret shell Turritella tippana Conrad Turritella vertebroides Morton 1834 turret shell Turritella vertebroides Morton
Sorbeoconcha - Naticidae	Euspira rectilabrum Euspira rectilabrum Conrad 1858 moon snail Euspira rectilabrum (Conrad)
Neogastropoda - Paladmetidae	Paladmete gardnerae Paladmete gardnerae Wade snail Paladmete gardnerae pygmaea Sohl
Neogastropoda - Turbinellidae	Napulus fragilis Napulus fragilis Sohl 1964 snail Napulus fragilis Sohl
Neogastropoda - Volutidae	Longoconcha quadrilirata, Volutomorpha retifera Longoconcha quadrilirata Sohl 1964 volute Longoconcha quadrilirata Sohl Volutomorpha retifera Dall 1907 volute Volutomorpha retifera Dall
Sorbeoconcha - Aporrhaidae	Pugnellus (Pugnellus) densatus, Anchura ? sp. Pugnellus (Pugnellus) densatus snail Pugnellus (Pugnellus) densatus Conrad Anchura ? sp. Conrad 1860 snail Anchura sp?