Miss. Bureau of Geology test hole 5, sample R4879B

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Formation

Tuscahoma

Geologic interval

Paleocene

Age

66–56 Ma

Depositional environment

marginal marine indet.

Recorded occurrences

4

Data: Paleobiology Database collection 231234 (CC BY 4.0) — view the source record

• Roadcut on W. side of Road, sample R4405 — FossilMS · 11.5 mi
• Miss. Bureau of Geology test hole 2, sample R4483A — FossilMS · 12.9 mi
• Miss. Bureau of Geology test hole PT 3, sample R4823 — FossilMS · 14.4 mi
• Jablonski & Raup Locality 15 — FossilMS · 21 mi
• MGS 120 — FossilMS · 26.4 mi
• Enterprise, MS, RR cut, 3' below oyster bed C/E (unit 2) — FossilMS · 30.3 mi

• Boro's, Newton, MS, 10-12" above base of outcrop; bag #1 — FossilMS
• Byram's Ferry — FossilMS
• Catalpa Creek — FossilMS
• Catalpa Creek — FossilMS
• Cedar Creek — FossilMS
• Clinton, near — FossilMS

• Adams County — Banded AgateMS
• Bell Creek — AgateMS
• Coon Creek tongue, cut of Southern Railway, 3/4 mi W of Wenasoga — FossilMS
• Cynthia Pit — FossilMS
• E. Hatchie Creek, Crum's old mill site, 16.5 mi NE of Ripley, at base of section — FossilMS
• Eothoracosaurus mississippiensis type locality — FossilMS

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