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 | |
Venericardia (Rotundicardia) carsonensis Dall 1903 clam |