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Miller Bridge Bluff, Pascagoula Formation - Campbell and Otvos (1992)

US / MS
31.01389, -88.70583View on MapOpen in Google Maps
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Miller Bridge Bluff, Pascagoula Formation - Campbell and Otvos (1992) is a fossil collection site in Greene, Mississippi, cataloged in the Paleobiology Database. Fossils here come from the Pensacola Formation, dated to the Late Miocene (11.63–5.333 million years ago). The depositional environment is recorded as paralic indet. Documented finds include Rangia, Ostrea.

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Fossil

Geologic setting

Formation
Pensacola
Geologic interval
Late Miocene
Age
11.63–5.333 Ma
Depositional environment
paralic indet.
Recorded occurrences
2
Geology notes

Estuarine foram and ostracode species present.

Locality notes

At foot of right river bank, downstream of Highway 98, Miller Bridge, Bluff, Chickasawhay River, Green County, southeastern Mississippi (center of south section line, sect. 29, T1N, R7W; Leakesville SW quadrangle. Lat/long estimate based on locality of Miller Bridge

Fossils found here

Rangia
Bivalvia · Mactridae
Ostrea
Bivalvia · Ostreidae

Records and references

Data: Paleobiology Database collection 41809 (CC BY 4.0)view the source record

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Coordinates: 31.01389, -88.70583

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