MGS 139 (Oligocene of the United States)

Where: Clarke County, Mississippi (31.9° N, 88.7° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 35.5° N, 75.6° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Red Bluff Formation (Vicksburg Group), Rupelian (33.9 - 28.1 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: mesofossils

Collection methods: Zeuglodon locality. Collected by G.D. Harris, K.V.W. Palmer and R.H. Flowers, 1935. Field notebook No. 31.

Primary reference: D. T. Dockery. 1980. Invertebrate Macropaleontolgy of the Clarke County Mississippi Area. Bulletin - Mississippi Geological, Economic and Topographic Survey 122 [M. Kosnik/M. Kosnik/L. Eccles]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 101197: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Laurie Eccles on 18.12.2010

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Carditida - Carditidae