MGS 27 (Eocene of the United States)

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: Archusa marl Member (Cook Mountain Formation), Bartonian (41.3 - 38.0 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: mesofossils

Primary reference: D. T. Dockery. 1980. Invertebrate Macropaleontolgy of the Clarke County Mississippi Area. Bulletin - Mississippi Geological, Economic and Topographic Survey 122 [M. Kosnik/M. Kosnik/L. Eccles]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 99674: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Laurie Eccles on 18.11.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Caryophylliidae
Paracyathus bellus Vaughan 1900 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Dendrophylliidae
 Scleractinia - Rhizangiidae
Astrangia sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral
Thecostraca
 Calanticomorpha - Calanticidae
Euscalpellum eocenense Meyer 1885 barnacle
Bivalvia
 Arcida - Arcidae
 Arcida - Glycymerididae
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Chlamys wahtubbeana Dall 1898 scallop
 Pectinida - Plicatulidae
Plicatula filamentosa Conrad 1833 scallop
planata and ? Var.
 Cardiida - Veneridae
Pitar (Calpitaria) texacola Harris 1895 venus clam
 Pholadida - Corbulidae
 Solenida - Solenidae
"Solen (cf. Eosolen) abruptus" = Solena (Eosolen)
"Solen (cf. Eosolen) abruptus" = Solena (Eosolen) clam