Micro-Paleontologic Analysis of Jackson Eocene of Eastern Mississippi

Abstract

This paper is essentially a check list of the Foraminifera and Ostracoda which occur in the Garland Creek-Shubuta Bridge section of the Jackson Eocene of Clarke and Wayne counties, Mississippi, as described by the Shreveport Geological Society guide book for their eleventh annual field trip. The check list (Table I) contains an analysis of the micro-fauna of other noted Jackson localities. From the check list, the writer has attempted to show how the Jackson Eocene may be subdivided for correlation purposes. He has called attention to the fact that the upper part of the section is closely related to the Red Bluff Oligocene.