Also known as MGS 52
Where: Clarke County, Mississippi (32.0° N, 88.7° W: paleocoordinates 32.7° N, 79.8° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Archusa Marl Member (Cook Mountain Formation), Bartonian (41.3 - 38.0 Ma)
• Age after Dockery (1996).
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; mixed carbonate-siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: C. L. Gazin and J. M. Sullivan. 1942. A new titanothere from the Eocene of Mississippi, with notes on the correlation between the marine Eocene of the Gulf Coastal Plain and continental Eocene of the Rocky Mountain Region. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 101(13):1-13 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 80887: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 19.05.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| unclassified | |
| Mammalia | |
Notiotitanops mississippiensis n. gen. n. sp.
Notiotitanops mississippiensis n. gen. n. sp. Gazin and Sullivan 1942 brontothere | |
| Bivalvia | |
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Nucula sp. Lamarck 1799 nut clam | |
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Chlamys cf. wahtubbeanus scallop
Pseudamussium corneoides scallop | |
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Nemocardium sp. Meek 1876 cockle | |
| Globothalamea | |