Where: Clarke County, Mississippi (31.9° N, 88.7° W: paleocoordinates 32.5° N, 79.8° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Moodys Branch Formation (Jackson Group), Bartonian (41.3 - 38.0 Ma)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; unlithified, burrowed, glauconitic, argillaceous, calcareous siltstone
Size class: mesofossils
Collection methods: Collected by G.D. Harris, October 1940.
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 91097: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Laurie Eccles on 04.09.2009, edited by Ursula Smith
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
"Nucula (Nucula) spheniopsis" = Nucula (Nucula) sphenopsis
"Nucula (Nucula) spheniopsis" = Nucula (Nucula) sphenopsis Conrad 1865 nut clam | |
Hilgardia multilineata Conrad 1854 pointed nut clam
Nuculana linifera pointed nut clam | |
Arcoperna filosa mussel | |
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Atrina jacksoniana Dall 1898 oyster | |
Crassatella "sp. I" Lamarck 1799 clam
Crassinella pygmaea clam | |
Venericardia "sp. F" Lamarck 1801 clam
Venericardia (Rotundicardia) diversidentata Meyer 1885 clam | |
Timothynus bulla Conrad 1865 clam | |
Alveinus minutus Conrad 1865 clam | |
Spisula jacksonensis clam | |
Tellina (Eurytellina) linifera tellin clam
Tellina (Eurytellina) vaughani tellin clam | |
Corbula (Caryocorbula) densata Conrad 1854 clam | |
Miltha (? Plastomiltha) gaufia, "Lucina (? Callucina) curta" = Myrtaea (Myrtaea) curta, Lucina (? Callucina) subcurta
"Lucina (? Callucina) curta" = Myrtaea (Myrtaea) curta Conrad 1865 clam | |
Scaphopoda | |
Dentalium (Antalis) mississippiense Conrad 1848 tusk shell Dentalium (Anatalis) mississippiense jacksonense
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Gastropoda | |
"Turritella alveata" = Kapalmerella alveata, Turritella perdita
"Turritella alveata" = Kapalmerella alveata Conrad 1854 turret shell
Turritella perdita Conrad 1865 turret shell | |
Caricella subangulata Conrad 1854 volute
Lapparia dumosa Conrad 1854 volute | |
Agaronia "sp. A" Gray 1839 snail
Agaronia media Meyer 1885 snail | |
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Calyptraphorus stamineus snail | |
Tornatellaea lata Conrad 1834 snail | |
"Creseis hastata" = Creseis spina
"Creseis hastata" = Creseis spina Reuss 1867 snail |