Also known as H-79-12-1
Where: Yazoo County, Mississippi (33.0° N, 90.2° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 37.0° N, 72.1° W (Wright 2013)
• coordinate based on political unit
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Moodys Branch Formation, Lutetian to Lutetian (47.8 - 33.9 Ma)
• "Late Lutetian-Early Priabonian" (T. Hansen pers. comm.)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; unlithified, burrowed, argillaceous, calcareous siltstone
Collection methods: bulk, mechanical, sieve,
Primary reference: S. R. Elder. 1981. Fossil assemblages of a marine transgressive sand, Moody''s Branch Formation (Upper Eocene), Louisiana and Mississippi. Unpublished M.A. Thesis, University of Texas at Austin 1-140 [T. Hansen/M. Sommers/A. Clement]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 1286: authorized by Thor Hansen, entered by Mike Sommers on 08.04.1999, edited by Jocelyn Sessa
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
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Gnathostomata | |
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Bryozoa | |
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Gastropoda | |
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Retusa jacksonensis snail | |
Caricella fenestra volute | |
Pseudoliva vetusta Conrad 1833 true whelk | |
Calyptraphorus stamineus snail | |
Mesalia vetusta, "Turritella alveata" = Kapalmerella alveata
Mesalia vetusta Conrad 1833 turret shell
"Turritella alveata" = Kapalmerella alveata Conrad 1854 turret shell | |
"Calyptraea aperta" = Calyptraea (Trochita) aperta
"Calyptraea aperta" = Calyptraea (Trochita) aperta Solander 1766 slipper shell originally entered as "Calyptrea aperta"
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Bivalvia | |
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"Nucula spheniopsis" = Nucula (Nucula) sphenopsis
"Nucula spheniopsis" = Nucula (Nucula) sphenopsis Conrad 1865 nut clam | |
Corbula densata Conrad 1854 clam | |
Pitar securiformis Conrad 1865 venus clam
Callista annexa Conrad 1865 venus clam | |
Diplodonta ungulina Conrad 1833 clam | |
Spisula jacksonensis clam | |
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"Lucina curta" = Myrtaea (Myrtaea) curta
"Lucina curta" = Myrtaea (Myrtaea) curta Conrad 1865 clam | |
"Venericardia diversidentata" = Venericardia (Rotundicardia) diversidentata, Venericardia apodensata, "Venericardia parva" = Venericardia (Pleuromeris) parva
"Venericardia diversidentata" = Venericardia (Rotundicardia) diversidentata Meyer 1885 clam
"Venericardia parva" = Venericardia (Pleuromeris) parva Lea 1833 clam | |
Eburneopecten scintillatus Conrad 1854 scallop | |
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Glycymeris idonea Conrad 1865 clam | |
Scaphopoda | |
Cadulus sp. Philippi 1844 tusk shell | |
Anthozoa | |
Anthozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1834 |