US And Canadian Fossil Sites -- Data for MISSISSIPPI

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Location	County	State/Province	Directions,Notes	Age	Formation	Fossils	Comments	Reference
-	-	MS	Along the Mississippi River from Cairo,IL to Baton Rouge,LA in loess (wind blown silt) deposits ranging from 9 to 23 meters in thickness and 50 to 100km in width (thicker in North and better developed on E side of river)	Pleistocene		terrestrial and occasional lacustrian gastropods. A few bivalves	MS0001			\|	,
Corinth	Alcorn	MS	4 km NW in cut on Southern RR	Cretaceous Upper	Selma chalk	Exogyra	MS0002			\|	,
Houlka	Chickasaw	MS	8 km E on upper slope of hill	Cretaceous	Ripley	Exogyra	MS0003			\|	,
Houston	Chickasaw	MS	3 km SE in cut on MS8	Cretaceous	Ripley	Exogyra	MS0004			\|	,
Okolona	Chickasaw	MS	3 km W	Cretaceous Upper	Selma Chalk	Exogyra	MS0005			\|	,
Okolona	Chickasaw	MS	5 km W	Cretaceous Upper	Selma Chalk	Exogyra	MS0006			\|	,
Okolona	Chickasaw	MS	7 km W along Houston Road	Cretaceous Upper	Selma Chalk	Exogyra	MS0007			\|	,
Enterprise	Clarke	MS	1 km below in bed and banks of Chickasawhay River			Scutella,Ostrea,Sharks Teeth,Sea Urchins	MS0008			\|	,
Enterprise	Clarke	MS	16km S at Wautubbee Cut on the Northeastern RR	Eocene	Claiborne	Astarte,others	MS0009			\|	,
Enterprise	Clarke	MS	6.5 km NW at Dunn's Water Mill	Eocene	Claiborne	Claiborne faunas	MS0010			\|	,
Shubuta	Clarke	MS	6.5 km NE in gorge of Garland Creek	Eocene	Moodys Branch	Pleurotoma	MS0011			\|	,
Barton's Bluff	Clay	MS	on Tombigbee River 16 km NW of Columbus in Lowndes County			numerous fossils	MS0012			\|	,
Carradine Store	Clay	MS	4 km SE in bald spots adjacent to West Point-Houston Rd	Cretaceous	Selma	Exogyra,Diploschiza	MS0013	Carradine's Store seems to have been a landmark in the mid 19th Century. It was a collection point for supplies for the Confederate Army.		\|	,
Cedar Bluff	Clay	MS	2 km E on MS10 near W end of Line Creek bridge	Cretaceous	Selma	invertebrates,vertebrates,plants	MS0014			\|	,
Vinton Bluff	Clay	MS		Cretaceous	Eutaw	Shark teeth - Pseudothryptodus[?],Ischyrhiza	MS0015	'Pseudothryptodus' is 'Pseudohypolopus' (No citations found) in original		\|	,
Cynthia	Hinds	MS	7 km NW on US49 in quarry			gastropods,shark teeth,vertebrates	MS0016			\|	,
Cynthia	Hinds	MS	in Miss-Lite aggregate Plant pit 9 km NW of US49	Eocene	Yazoo Clay	Gastropods,bivalves,shark teeth,fragments of Basilosaurus	MS0017			\|	,
Jackson	Hinds	MS		Eocene	Moodys Branch	Mollusks -Turritella	MS0018			\|	,
Jackson	Hinds	MS	Coral Flabellum			?	MS0019			\|	,
Jackson	Hinds	MS	Pelecypod Bathytormus			?	MS0020			\|	,
Jackson	Hinds	MS	at Dry Creek			Pleurotoma	MS0021			\|	,
Jackson	Hinds	MS	within city on Moodys Branch which is a small tributary of the Pearl River in green sands	Eocene	Moodys Branch	Dentalium,mollusks - Leda,Kelliella,gastropods - Pleurotoma,echinoids,crabs. shark teeth,etc.	MS0022			\|	,
Dorsey	Itawamba	MS	at W edge on N side of US78	Cretaceous	Selma	Exogyra	MS0023			\|	,
Fulton	Itawamba	MS	SE at site of Maxey's Mill	Cretaceous Upper	Tuscaloosa	leaves,mollusk molds	MS0024			\|	,
Mooreville	Itawamba	MS	3 km E on US78	Cretaceous	Selma	Exogyra	MS0025			\|	,
Mooreville	Itawamba	MS	8 km NE along Mantachie Rd			Exogyra	MS0026			\|	,
Ratliff	Itawamba	MS	4 km E on East facing slope in calcareous micaceous sand	Cretaceous	Eutaw	Exogyra	MS0027			\|	,
Scooba	Kemper	MS	10 km N on US6 on hill S of Wahalak Creek	Cretaceous	Selma	Exogyra,Diploschiza	MS0028			\|	,
Scooba	Kemper	MS	6 km NE on N slope of hill	Cretaceous	Selma	Exogyra,Diploschiza	MS0029			\|	,
Lauderdale	Lauderdale	MS	At top of bluff behind Red Hot Truckstop	Eocene	Bashi	Asillahyllos,Archaeomanta,Burnhamia,Galeus,Heterodontus,Meridiania,Microscyliorhinus,Platyrhina,Scyliorhinus	MS0030			\|	,
Meridian	Lauderdale	MS	25.9km N of Tom Bailey Drive (I59) in Road cuts on MS19	Eocene	Bashi	mollusks,shark teeth,snake vertebrae	MS0031			\|	,
Meridian	Lauderdale	MS	3 km S in RR cut	Tertiary	Woods Bluff	abundant fossils : mollusks,pelecypods,cephalopods	MS0032			\|	,
Meridian	Lauderdale	MS	in roadcuts on MS19			vertebrates,mollusks,shark teeth	MS0033			\|	,
Newton	Lauderdale	MS	In area outcrops	Eocene		Ostrea,Pleurotoma	MS0034			\|	,
Tuscahoma	Lauderdale	MS	at Red Hot Plaza truck stop in glauconitic greensand	Eocene	Wilcox	Carcharias,Dasyatis,Galeorhinus,Lepisosteus,Mustelus,Odontapsis,Physogaleus,Rhinoptera	MS0035	References indicate that Tuscahoma no longer exists. It may have been at - lon=89.9931 Lat=33.7772		\|	,
Bethany	Lee	MS	400 meters W in area exposures on the W side of Tishomingo Creek Valley	Cretaceous	Selma	Exogyra	MS0036			\|	,
Saltillo	Lee	MS	2 km WNW on US45	Cretaceous	Selma	Exogyra	MS0037			\|	,
Shannon	Lee	MS	13 km W in gully S of Troy rd	Cretaceous	Selma	Exogyra	MS0038			\|	,
Tupelo	Lee	MS	2 km W of the Waverly along Tibbee Creek	Cretaceous	Eutaw	Hadrosaurs,ammonites,crabs,fish,mollusks	MS0039			\|	,
Tupelo	Lee	MS	2.5 km W along Chesterville Rd	Cretaceous	Selma	Exogyra	MS0040			\|	,
Tupelo	Lee	MS	5 km W along Chesterville Rd	Cretaceous	Selma	Exogyra	MS0041			\|	,
Tupelo	Lee	MS	5 km W along Pontotoc Rd	Cretaceous	Selma	Exogyra	MS0042			\|	,
Tupelo	Lee	MS	6 km W along Pontotoc Rd	Cretaceous	Selma	Exogyra	MS0043			\|	,
Tupelo	Lee	MS	6 km W on Pontotoc Road (MS6) in	Cretaceous Upper	Selma Chalk	Echinoids,Mollusk casts,large bivalves.	MS0044			\|	,
Tupelo	Lee	MS	9 km S in bed of Coonewar Creek at US6 crossing	Cretaceous	Selma	Exogyra	MS0045			\|	,
Tupelo	Lee	MS	In roadcuts on US78 between Mileposts 79 and 82	Cretaceous	Selma	Exogyra,Gryphaea,mollusk molds	MS0046			\|	,
Waverly	Lee	MS	in Cretaceous Eutaw Formation on the Tombigbee River 2 km West Hadrosaur fragments and mollusks. The overlying Selma chalk with abundant mollusks	Cretaceous	Eutaw	fish,crabs,ammonites,dinosaur bones and a large microfauna	MS0047			\|	,
Columbus	Lowndes	MS	11 km ESE			numerous vertebrate,plant,and invertebrate fossils	MS0048			\|	,
Columbus	Lowndes	MS	7-8 km NW at Plymouth Buff on Tombigbee River			numerous vertebrate,plant,and invertebrate fossils	MS0049			\|	,
Columbus	Lowndes	MS	In bluff a few hundred meters above RR bridge			numerous vertebrate,plant,and invertebrate fossils	MS0050			\|	,
Columbus	Lowndes	MS	at Columbus Lock and Dam in	Cretaceous	Eutaw	Cephalopods - Baculites,rays -Ptychodus	MS0051			\|	,
Early Grove	Marshall	MS	2 km SE of Wellborns[?] on E of road in numerous gullies		Wilcox	Excellent leaf fossils of many species.	MS0052	Can't find a Wellborns,MS. Possibly Wellborns is the name of a store or farm rather than a formal place name.		\|	,
Aberdeen	Monroe	MS	5 km upstream at Blue Buff on E bank of river			abundant invertebrates,some vertebrates.	MS0053			\|	,
Aberdeen	Monroe	MS	below RR bridge on Tombigbee River			abundant invertebrates,some vertebrates.	MS0054			\|	,
Amory	Monroe	MS	6 km W on E slope of Tombigbee River valley			abundant invertebrates. A few vertebrates.	MS0055			\|	,
Garlandville	Newton	MS	on Suanlovy[?] Creek			?	MS0056	Garlandville (such as it is) is at 32.2196N,89.1226W in Jasper County a few hundred meters S of the Newton County Line. Unable to identify a Suanlovy Creek in the area.	32.2196N,89.1226W approximate	\|	,
Macon	Noxubee	MS	13 km S on Macon-DeKalb road	Eocene	Clayton	Gryphaeostrea,corals,Turritella,Cucullaea,Venericardia,Ostrea	MS0057			\|	,
Macon	Noxubee	MS	19-20 km NW in bluff on Horse Creek on Macon-Louisville Rd			coral,Cylichna?,Turris,Turritella,Natica,Xenophora,Cucullaea,Ostrea	MS0058			\|	,
New Albany	Noxubee	MS	6 km S information on Northward facing slope of Kings Creek Valley.	Cretaceous Upper	Owl Creek	Mollusks,Baculites,sharks teeth,mosasaur teeth,mosasaur vertebra	MS0059			\|	,
New Albany	Noxubee	MS	At Agricultural Farm N at city limits W of US45	Cretaceous Upper		Exogyra,mollusks	MS0060			\|	,
New Albany	Noxubee	MS	In Agriculture farm on N limits W of US45. Exogyra.	Cretaceous Upper	Demopolis Chalk	Casts of mollusks	MS0061			\|	,
Starkville	Oktibbeha	MS	4 km N on farm			Exogyra	MS0062			\|	,
Starkville	Oktibbeha	MS	5 km NW			Exogyra	MS0063			\|	,
Starkville	Oktibbeha	MS	In gullies on State College campus	Cretaceous Upper	Prairie Bluff	Exogyra	MS0064			\|	,
Pontotoc	Pontotoc	MS	1 km S in RR cut in sand just above Cretaceous contact	Cretaceous	Ripley	abundant fossils	MS0065			\|	,
Pontotoc	Pontotoc	MS	2 km W on the Toccopola Rd at top of steep descent			fossils	MS0066			\|	,
Pontotoc	Pontotoc	MS	3 km SE at base of hill at fork in Houston road in Limestone ledge			Exogyra,Gryphaea	MS0067			\|	,
Pontotoc	Pontotoc	MS	4 km S in quarry in100 meters SE of crossing of N fork of Chiwapa Creek by old MS15.	Cretaceous	Ripley	Micrabacia,Hardouinia,Ostrea,Exogyra,Pecten,etc	MS0068			\|	,
Pontotoc	Pontotoc	MS	In on both sides of MS6 3.5 km E	Cretaceous Upper	Prairie Bluff Chalk	echinoids Hardouinia,Hemiaster,mollusks,vertebrates.	MS0069			\|	,
Pontotoc	Pontotoc	MS	in cuts on MS6			echinoids,gastropods,shark teeth	MS0070			\|	,
Tupelo	Pontotoc	MS	10 km W on MS6 in gullies on N side	Cretaceous	Selma	Exogyra	MS0071			\|	,
Tupelo	Pontotoc	MS	in Cretaceous Eutaw Formation on Tibbee Creek -Hadrosaur fragments and mollusks. The overlying Selma chalk with abundant mollusks,fish,crabs,ammonites,and a large microfauna is present at some Eutaw localities	Cretaceous	Eutaw	?	MS0072			\|	,
Booneville	Prentiss	MS	12 km SE on NE slope of Youngs Creek Valle			invertebrates,and few vertebrate fragments	MS0073			\|	,
Booneville	Prentiss	MS	14 km E on Big Brown Creek near Hare's Mill site			invertebrates and a few vertebrates	MS0074			\|	,
Marietta	Prentiss	MS	400 meters W on Baldwyn Road			invertebrates,fish remains	MS0075			\|	,
Brandon	Rankin	MS	3 km S in quarry	Oligocene		invertebrates	MS0076			\|	,
Brandon	Rankin	MS	3.2km SW in Marquette Cement Co Quarry	Oligocene	Mint Spring Marl	mollusks Chlamys.	MS0077			\|	,
Sylvarena	Smith	MS	1.2 km S near Leaf River in greenish marl exposures	Oligocene	Vicksburg	Very large Oysters (30cm long)	MS0078			\|	,
Sylvarena	Smith	MS	3 km E in lime quarry a E side of W Tallahala Creek on MS18			?	MS0079			\|	,
Sylvarena	Smith	MS	3.2km E of County Lime Quarry and E of West Tallahala Creek on MS18	Oligocene	Mint Spring Marl	mollusks Chlamys	MS0080			\|	,
Ripley	Tippah	MS	5 km NE along Owl Creek bluffs	Cretaceous Upper	Owl Creek Marl	friable,well preserved fossils - Ostrea,Exogyra,Gryphaea,Trigonia,Baculites,Scaphites,Sea Urchins,fish teeth	MS0081			\|	,
Ripley	Tippah	MS	area exposures	Cretaceous	Ripley	numerous fossils	MS0083			\|	,
Ripley	Tippah	MS	exposures between Pontotoc and TN line	Cretaceous Upper	Owl Creek Marl	friable,well preserved fossils - Ostrea,Exogyra,Gryphaea,Trigonia,Baculites,Scaphites,Sea Urchins,fish teeth	MS0082			\|	,
Big Springs	Tishomingo	MS	In area cuts and quarries	Devonian	Iuka	Cup corals,blastoids,crinoid stems,bryozoa,brachiopods	MS0084			\|	,
Cherokee	Tishomingo	MS	6 km W 2 km W of Bear Creek	Devonian		cup corals,crinoid stems. bryozoa,brachiopods,pelecypods,gastropods,trilobite fragments - Lithostrotion masses abundant	MS0085			\|	,
Cherokee	Tishomingo	MS	In quarry of John A Denie and Sons as well as adjacent hill	Devonian		cup corals,crinoid stems,bryozoa,brachiopods,pelecypods,gastropods,trilobite fragments -Lithostrotion masses abundant	MS0086			\|	,
Eastport	Tishomingo	MS	3 km away at Bear Creek Estuary in shale in banks	Devonian		trilobites,brachiopods	MS0087			\|	,
Island Hill	Tishomingo	MS	on Yellow Creek in limestones	Devonian	New Scotland	abundant brachiopods,gastropods,fish plates,crustacea,crinoid stems,bryozoa,pelecypods	MS0088			\|	,
Iuka	Tishomingo	MS	In area outcrops	Devonian	Iuka	bryozoa,brachiopods,pelecypods,crustacea,blastoids	MS0089			\|	,
Iuka	Tishomingo	MS	along sw1/4 s17t2sr11e	Devonian	Iuka	bryozoa,brachiopods,pelecypods,crustacea,blastoids	MS0090		s17t2sr11e	\|	,
Iuka	Tishomingo	MS	midway to Tishomingo City in regional exposures	Mississippian	Tuscumbia	Platycrinus,crinoids,corals,trilobites,mollusks	MS0091			\|	,
Yellow Creek Valley	Tishomingo	MS	area outcrops throughout county	Devonian	New Scotland	well preserved Leptaena,Stropheodonta,Tentaculites,Spirifer,Anoplotheca,Dalmanites fragments	MS0092			\|	,
Yellow Creek Valley	Tishomingo	MS	bluffs and ravines near Tennessee River	Devonian	New Scotland	well preserved Leptaena,Stropheodonta,Tentaculites,Spirifer,Anoplotheca,Dalmanites fragments	MS0093			\|	,
Yellow Creek Valley	Tishomingo	MS	on E side in cliffs about 5 km from stream mouth	Devonian	New Scotland	well preserved Leptaena,Stropheodonta,Tentaculites,Spirifer,Anoplotheca,Dalmanites fragments	MS0094			\|	,
-	Union	MS		Cretaceous	Ripley	Echinoderms	MS0103			\|	,
Blue Springs	Union	MS	4 km NW at RR cut at bridge over branch of Cherry Creek	Cretaceous	Ripley	Exogyra.	MS0095			\|	,
Keownville	Union	MS	2 km NE at Lees mill site on headwater branch of Tallahatchie River	Cretaceous	Ripley	Exogyra	MS0096			\|	,
Molino	Union	MS	5 km S in bluff on small stream	Cretaceous	Ripley	Exogyra	MS0097			\|	,
New Albany	Union	MS	3 km E in RR cuts along Frisco RR	Paleocene	Clayton	Turritella mortoni very abundant.	MS0098			\|	,
New Albany	Union	MS	5 km S on Hwy 15	Cretaceous Upper	Owl Creek	mollusks,sea urchin - Linthia,Idonearca,Trigonia	MS0099			\|	,
New Albany	Union	MS	5.5 km S in road cuts on MS15	Cretaceous Upper		fossils	MS0100			\|	,
New Albany	Union	MS	in cut on St Louis-San Francisco RR 7 km S.	Paleocene	Clayton	Hamulus,Lima,Halymenites	MS0101			\|	,
Wallerville	Union	MS	6 km NE in roadside ditch on local road on NE slope of tributary of Brown's Creek	Cretaceous	Ripley	Exogyra	MS0102			\|	,
Vicksburg	Warren	MS	Coral Oculina			?	MS0104			\|	,
Vicksburg	Warren	MS	In Mississippi City bluffs in marine limestones in marl	Eocene-Oligocene		abundant marine fossils - Dentalium,pteropods - Styliola,Lucina	MS0105			\|	,
Vicksburg	Warren	MS	In gorges of small streams in city	Eocene-Oligocene		abundant marine fossils-Dentalium;pteropods-Styliola,Lucina	MS0106			\|	,
Vicksburg	Warren	MS	near city cemetery in road cuts in Pliocene Loess bluffs	Pliocene		abundant land snails of many species. A few vertebrates - tigers,sloth,tapir,horses. deer,bison,elephant,mastodon	MS0107			\|	,
Wayne County	Wayne	MS	In area Limestone outcrops	Oligocene	Vicksburg	Teredo	MS0108			\|	,
Sartaria	Yazoo	MS	2.5 km S on Locust Grove Plantation in deep ravines	Eocene	Jackson	Zeuglodon bones	MS0109			\|	,
Sartaria	Yazoo	MS	In area Eocene outcrops	Eocene	Jackson	Zeuglodon bones	MS0110			\|	,
Thompson Creek	Yazoo	MS		Eocene		Chadron Age Mammal Reference Location	MS0111			\|	,
Yazoo City	Yazoo	MS	In marls in bluffs	Eocene	Jackson	Zeuglodon bones and teeth	MS0112			\|	,
-	[?]	MS	In marls from Yazoo City through Madison County,Northern Hinds County to Scott,Jasper,Smith and Clarke counties	Eocene	Jackson	Zeuglodon bones and teeth	MS0113			\|	,
-	[?]	MS	In outcrops	Eocene		Whales -- Zeuglodon,Zygorhiza usually found in association with shark teeth --Carcharodon	MS0114			\|	,

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