Riverside Park (H-79-11-11): Lutetian - Priabonian, Mississippi
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Flabellidae
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Flabellum cuneiforme
(Lonsdale 1845)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| wailesii | ||||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Nuculida
- Nuculidae
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Nucula sp.
Lamarck 1799
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8 specimens | |||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Nuculanida
- Nuculanidae
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Nuculana sp.
Link 1807
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6 specimens | |||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Poromyida
- Verticordiidae
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? Verticordia cossmanni
Dall 1903
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3 specimens | |||||||||
| originally entered as "? Verticordia cossmanni" | ||||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Kelliellidae
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Kelliella boettgeri
()
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74 specimens | |||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Semelidae
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? Abra sp.
Lamarck 1818
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| originally entered as "? Abra sp." | ||||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Tellinidae
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Tellinidae indet.
Blainville 1814
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| Tellinids | ||||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Cardiidae
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Nemocardium nicoletti
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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= Nemocardium nicolletti
Conrad 1854
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Palmer and Brann 1965 | |||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Pholadida
- Corbulidae
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Corbula sp.
Bruguière 1789
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31 specimens | |||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Lucinida
- Lucinidae
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? Lucina curta
(Conrad 1865)
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3 specimens | |||||||||
| recombined as Myrtaea (Myrtaea) curta | ||||||||||
| originally entered as "? Lucina curta" | ||||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Carditida
- Astartidae
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Lirodiscus jacksonensis
Meyer 1885
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Carditida
- Carditidae
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Venericardia diversidentata
Meyer 1885
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5 specimens | |||||||||
| recombined as Venericardia (Rotundicardia) diversidentata | ||||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Carditida
- Crassatellidae
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Bathytormus flexurus
Conrad 1854
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4 specimens | |||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Arcida
- Limopsidae
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Limopsis radiata
Meyer 1885
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6 specimens | |||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Arcida
- Arcidae
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Barbatia sp.
Gray 1842
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Gastropoda
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Gastropoda indet.
Cuvier 1795
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2 specimens | |||||||||
| misc. gastropods, 2 species? | ||||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Hipponicidae
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Hipponix pygmaea
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5 specimens | |||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Neotaenioglossa
- Calyptraeidae
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Calyptraea sp.
Lamarck 1799
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| originally entered as "Calyptrea sp." | ||||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Turritellidae
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Turritella sp.
Lamarck 1799
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7 specimens | |||||||||
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Scaphopoda
- Dentaliida
- Dentaliidae
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Dentalium sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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3 specimens | |||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Mississippi | County: | Hinds |
| Coordinates: | 32.3° North, 90.2° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 33.2° North, 80.8° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Eocene |
| *Period: | Tertiary | ||
| *International age/stage: | Lutetian - Priabonian | ||
| Key time interval: | Lutetian - Priabonian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 47.80000 - 33.90000 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Yazoo Clay | ||||
| Local section: | H-79-11 | Local bed: | 11 | ||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: "Late Lutetian - early Priabonian." (T. Hansen, pers. comm.) | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | burrows unlithified silty,calcareous "shale" | ||
| Environment: | offshore | Tectonic setting: | passive margin |
| Geology comments: "very poor preservation, shells were identified and counted by sorting through the sediment by hand. too fragile to be sieved." | |||
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | bulk,mechanical,field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | paleoecologic analysis |
Metadata
| Also known as: | (H-79-11) | ||
| Database number: | 1427 | ||
| Authorizer: | T. Hansen, J. Sessa | Enterer: | M. Sommers, J. Sessa |
| Modifier: | J. Alroy | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 1999-04-13 17:18:56 | Last modified: | 2006-09-14 19:56:40 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2000-11-20 13:53:11 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 39. | S. R. Elder. 1981. Fossil assemblages of a marine transgressive sand, Moody''s Branch Formation (Upper Eocene), Louisiana and Mississippi. Unpublished M.A. Thesis, University of Texas at Austin 1-140 [T. Hansen/M. Sommers/A. Clement] |
Secondary references:
| 11845 | 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] |