Also known as Roadcuts 5 miles E of Pontotoc on old Tupelo road, 50-60 feet above Bob Miller Creek, Pontotoc Co., Miss.

Where: Pontotoc County, Mississippi (34.2° N, 90.0° W: paleocoordinates 38.1° N, 67.4° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Discoscaphites conradi ammonoid zone, Prairie Bluff Formation, Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• Prairie Bluff? in reference, but do not want to have formation text string matching problems.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: mesofossils

Collection methods: USGS 19083: W. H. Monroe 1938

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: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 7588: authorized by Matt Kosnik, entered by Matt Kosnik on 18.07.2000

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)