Where: St. Bernard County, Mississippi (30.2° N, 89.2° W: paleocoordinates 30.2° N, 89.2° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• hand sample-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From an unnamed lithostratigraphic unit, for which lithostratigraphic relationships are not discussed. AGE: Latest Pleistocene; radiocarbon datings of molluscan and foraminiferal materials yield an age of 15,500 BP. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within section.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified mudstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: original aragonite
Reposited in the USNM
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
• COLLECTOR: Unknown, possibly H. Vokes of Morgan, Coleman and Gagliano. REPOSITORY: USNM.
Primary reference: E. H. Vokes and H. E. Vokes. 2000. Catalogue of Tulane University fossil localities. Unpublished notes [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 92439: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 13.11.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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