Also known as Cut of the Southern Railway, 1/2 of a mile NW of station at Wenasoga

Where: Alcorn County, Mississippi (34.9° N, 88.5° W: paleocoordinates 38.4° N, 65.7° 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

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 7488: authorized by Matt Kosnik, entered by Matt Kosnik on 18.07.2000

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