Where: Newton County, Mississippi (32.3° N, 89.2° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 36.2° N, 71.8° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Cook Mountain Formation (Claiborne Group), Bartonian (41.3 - 38.0 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: mesofossils

Collection methods: Collected by G.D> Harris, 1935. See field notebook No. 20 and 21. "1 bottle broken, material discarded 9/3/1974, but have a soda flat of this 6/2005".

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 91050: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Laurie Eccles on 02.09.2009, edited by Ursula Smith

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