ammonites
Chickasawhay River (H-80-8-5) (Eocene to of the United States)

Also known as H-80-8

Where: Clarke County, Mississippi (31.9° N, 88.7° W: paleocoordinates 32.7° N, 79.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Moodys Branch Formation, Lutetian to Lutetian (48.6 - 33.9 Ma)

• "Late Lutetian - early Priabonian." (T. Hansen, pers. comm.)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; unlithified, burrowed, silty, sandy, calcareous claystone

• sediment fairly evenly mixed as far as grain size (sands/silts/clays). "fair preservation. otoliths, bryozoans and echinoid fragments. fossils smaller than [H-80-8-4]."

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 Unpublished M.A. Thesis, University of Texas at Austin 1-140 [T. Hansen/M. Sommers/A. Clement] more details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 1433: authorized by Thor Hansen, entered by Mike Sommers on 13.04.1999, edited by Jocelyn Sessa