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Miss. Bureau of Geology test hole PT 3, sample R4823

US / MS
32.44733, -88.49174View on MapOpen in Google Maps
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Miss. Bureau of Geology test hole PT 3, sample R4823 is a fossil collection site in Mississippi, cataloged in the Paleobiology Database. Fossils here come from the Tuscahoma Formation, dated to the Paleocene (66–56 million years ago). The depositional environment is recorded as marginal marine indet. Documented finds include Sparganiaceaepollenites, Trudopollis.

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Fossil

Geologic setting

Formation
Tuscahoma
Geologic interval
Paleocene
Age
66–56 Ma
Depositional environment
marginal marine indet.
Recorded occurrences
4
Locality notes

Mississippi Bureau of Geology test hole PT 3, SE 1/4 SW 1/4 SE 1/4 sec. 7, T. 7 N., R. 18 E., Kewanee 7.5 min quadrangle, Lauderdale County, Miss. Elev. 115.5 m.

Fossils found here

Sparganiaceaepollenites
NO_CLASS_SPECIFIED · Typhaceae
Trudopollis
NO_CLASS_SPECIFIED · NO_FAMILY_SPECIFIED

Records and references

Data: Paleobiology Database collection 231265 (CC BY 4.0)view the source record

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Coordinates: 32.44733, -88.49174

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