USGS Loc. 246, USGS Loc. 2629 - Enterprise [Winona Fm]: Lutetian, Mississippi
collected by Burns

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea - Spatangoida - Loveniidae
Hemipatagus arguta n. sp.
Clark and Twitchell 1915
Echinoidea - Clypeasteroida - Protoscutellidae
Protoscutella mississippiensis (Clark and Twitchell 1915)
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Mississippi County:Clarke
Coordinates: 32.2° North, 88.8° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:33.4° North, 77.5° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Eocene
Stage:Lutetian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 2
Key time interval:Lutetian
Age range of interval:47.80000 - 41.30000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Claiborne Formation:Winona
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Stratigraphy comments: LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: Winona Sand in text; other local collections are from the Winona Formation. AGE: Middle Eocene in text; assumed to be Lutetian on the basis of age of other local collections from same formation. STRATIGRAPHIC REPORTED: From unknown position in local section.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: sandstone
Environment:coastal indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some macrofossils
Collection methods:surface (float),surface (in situ),survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:USNM
Collectors:Burns
Collection method comments: COLLECTOR: F. Burns. REPOSITORY: USNM (formerly USGS).
Taxonomic list comments:COVERAGE: Limited to echinoidea, but molluscs are probably present. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication with species-resolution identifications, but somewhat antiquated nomenclature.
Metadata
Database number:155927
Authorizer:A. Hendy Enterer:A. Hendy
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2014-05-04 14:19:36 Last modified:2014-05-04 14:19:36
Access level:group members Released:2014-05-04 14:19:36
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

32912. C. W. Cooke. 1959. Cenozoic echinoids of eastern United States. United States Geological Survey Professional Papers 321:1-106 [L. Villier/L. Villier/M. Hopkins]

Secondary references:

16640 W. B. Clark and M. W. Twitchell. 1915. The Mesozoic and Cenozoic Echinodermata of the United States. United States Geological Survey Bulletin 54:1-341 [L. Villier/J. Millet/M. Uhen]