ammonites
USGS Horn Island test hole, 40.8 ft (unit 3) (Holocene of the United States)

Where: Mississippi (30.2° N, 88.7° W: paleocoordinates 30.2° N, 88.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From an unnamed lithostratigraphic unit. AGE: Holocene, on the basis of pollen and foraminiferal biostratigraphy. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unit 3, 40.8 ft.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified, fine-grained, coarse sandstone

• ENVIRONMENT: Shallow-marine, siliciclastic environment.
• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Fine-coarse sandstone. LITHIFICATION: Unlithified, based on age.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original aragonite

Collected by USGS; reposited in the USGS

Collection methods: core,

• COLLECTOR: USGS. REPOSITORY: USGS.

Primary reference: G. S. Gohn, G. L. Brewster-Wingard, T. M. Cronin, L. E. Edwards, T. G. Gibson, M. Rubin, and D. A. Willard. 1996. Neogene and Quaternary geology of a stratigraphic test hole on Horn Island, Mississippi Sound. United Stated Geological Survey Open-file Report 96(20A) [A. Hendy/A. Hendy] more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 92523: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 17.11.2009

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