Natchez Trace Parkway, near Chapelville: Middle Campanian, Mississippi
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Bivalvia
- Arcida
- Cucullaeidae
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Cucullaea (Idonearca) vulgaris
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Bivalvia
- Ostreida
- Gryphaeidae
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Exogyra erraticostata
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Cardiidae
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Pachycardium stantoni
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| spelled with current rank as Protocardia (Pachycardium) | ||||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Veneridae
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Cyprimeria alta
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Cephalopoda
- Ammonitida
- Placenticeratidae
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Placenticeras sp.
Meek 1876
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| originally entered as "Placenteras sp." | ||||||||||
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Mississippi | County: | Lee |
| Coordinates: | 34.4° North, 88.6° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 37.2° North, 60.0° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Campanian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 7 | *Epoch: | Senonian |
| *International age/stage: | Late/Upper Campanian | ||
| Key time interval: | Middle Campanian | Foram zone: | Globotruncana ventricosa |
| Age range of interval: | 83.60000 - 72.10000 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Selma | Formation: | Coffee Sand | Member: | Tupelo Tongue |
| Stratigraphy comments: Tupelo Tongue of the Coffee Sand is Globotruncana ventricosa zone according to Mancini et al. (1996). Chapelville section. | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | "shale" |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | some macrofossils |
| Reason for describing collection: | biostratigraphic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 3867 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Patzkowsky | Enterer: | K. Layou |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | GCP,marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 1999-08-11 06:35:04 | Last modified: | 2022-10-07 16:22:30 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 1999-08-11 06:35:04 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 258. | D. T. Dockery, III and S. P. Jennings. 1988. Stratigraphy of the Tupelo Tongue of the Coffee Sand (upper Campanian), northern Lee County, Mississippi. Mississippi Geology 9(1):1-7 [M. Patzkowsky/K. Layou] |