Also known as S New Albany; USGS # 6872

Where: Union County, Mississippi (34.4° N, 89.0° W: paleocoordinates 38.0° N, 66.3° W)

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Discoscaphites iris ammonoid zone, basal Member (Owl Creek Formation), Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 65.5 Ma)

• Haustator bilira assemblage zone

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; gray, sandy, calcareous claystone

Size class: mesofossils

Preservation: original aragonite, original calcite

Reposited in the USGS

• no entry

Primary reference: N. F. Sohl and C. F. Koch. 1983. Upper Cretaceous (Maestrichtian) Mollusca from the Haustator bilira Assemblage Zone in the East Gulf Coastal Plain. USGS Open File Report 83-451:1-239 [M. Kosnik/M. Kosnik/M. Uhen] more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 4131: authorized by Matt Kosnik, entered by Matt Kosnik on 14.08.1999, edited by Uta Merkel