Where: Clarke County, Mississippi (32.2° N, 88.8° W: paleocoordinates 32.9° N, 79.9° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Cook Mountain Formation (Claiborne Group), Bartonian (41.3 - 38.0 Ma)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: mesofossils
Primary reference: K. V. Palmer and D. C. Brann. 1965. Catalogue of the Paleocene and Eocene mollusca of the southern and eastern United States. Part 1. Pelecypoda, Amphineura, Peteropoda, Scaphopoda and Cephalopoda. Bulletins of American Paleontology 48:1-471 [M. Kosnik/M. Kosnik/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 98501: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Ursula Smith on 07.10.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Cirsotrema (Coroniscala) spillmani wentletrap | |
Bivalvia | |
Cubitostrea (cf. Cubitostrea) sellaeformis Conrad 1832 oyster | |
Kellia interstriata clam |