ammonites
Shiloh Road, Quitman MS; 3' below top of unit 3, bag #1 (Eocene of the United States)

Also known as MCl-5-c2

Where: Clarke County, Mississippi (32.0° N, 88.7° W: paleocoordinates 32.7° N, 80.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Potterchitto Member (Cook Mountain Formation), Bartonian (40.4 - 37.2 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; unlithified, glauconitic, argillaceous, calcareous sandstone

Size class: mesofossils

Preservation: original aragonite, original calcite

Collection methods: bulk, mechanical, sieve,

Primary reference: L. C. Ivany. 1997. Faunal stability and environmental change in the middle Eocene Gulf Coastal Plain (PhD Thesis, Harvard University). 1-221 [L. Ivany/L. Ivany/A. Clement] more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 2451: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Linda Ivany on 05.07.1999, edited by Jocelyn Sessa