Terebratulina noackensis Stephenson, 1941

Remarks

• Collection:   Mississippi Museum of Natural Science.  Photos by Curator George Phillips.  Thanks!

• Formation:  Navarro Group Equivalent, Ripley Formation

• Location:     Oktibbeha County, Mississippi

General Info

Synonyms (older names and misidentifications in the literature)

• "lamp shell"
• 1941 Terebratulina noackensis Stephenson

Stratigraphic Occurrence

• Ripley Formation of Mississippi
• Navarro Group, Kemp Clay of central Texas

Age

• Terebratulina noackensis Stephenson is a Maastrichtian brachiopod from the Gulf Coast Cretaceous.

Geographic Occurrence (not an all-inclusive list)

• Oktibbeha County, MS
• Williamson County, TX

Remarks

         For identification and descriptions, see:

• Stephenson, L. W.  1941.  The Larger Invertebrate Fossils of the Navarro Group of Texas (Exclusive of Corals and Crustaceans and Exclusive of the Fauna of the Escondido Formation).  Bureau of Economic Geology, University of Texas Publication 4101, 70, plate 3, fig's 10-12.