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Coon Creek
Stratigraphic range: Early Maastrichtian
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Type
Formation or member
Overlies
Selma Chalk
Lithology
Other
Limestone, marl, sand, clay
Location
Coordinates
34°24′N88°54′W / 34.4°N 88.9°W / 34.4; -88.9
Approximate paleocoordinates
38°00′N66°12′W / 38.0°N 66.2°W / 38.0; -66.2
Region
Tennessee, Mississippi
Country
USA
Type section
Named for
Coon Creek (Mississippi)
Named by
B. Wade
The Coon Creek Formation or Coon Creek Tongue is a geologic unit and Konservat-Lagerstätte located in western Tennessee and extreme northeast Mississippi.[1] It is a sedimentary sandy marl deposit, Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) in age, about 70 million years old. The formation is renowned for its pristine fossils of Late Cretaceous marine invertebrates, including gastropods, bivalves, decapod crustaceans, and ammonites, particularly at Coon Creek in McNairy County, Tennessee, which the formation is named for. It is also known for producing fosslis of marine vertebrates, such as mosasaurs and plesiosaurs. Notable fossils from this formation is the gastropod Turritella, the bivalve Pterotrigonia thoracica (the state fossil of Tennessee), as well as other fossils such as crabs.
It is alternately considered its own geologic formation (as the Coon Creek Formation) or a distinct member of the wider Ripley Formation (as the Coon Creek Member or the Coon Creek Tongue).[1][2]
^Kornecki, Krystyna Maria (2014). Cretaceous confluence in the Coon Creek Formation (Maastrichtian) of Mississippi and Tennessee, USA: Taphonomy and systematic paleontology of a decapod konsentrat-lagerstätte (Thesis). OCLC 933765275.[page needed]
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The CoonCreekFormation or CoonCreek Tongue is a geologic unit and Konservat-Lagerstätte located in western Tennessee and extreme northeast Mississippi...
Tennessee, along the present course of the Tennessee River. The CoonCreekFormation is one of these, deposited as a sandy shoreline along the Mississippi...
the most important fossil sites in North America. The CoonCreekFormation is a geologic formation located in western Tennessee and extreme northeast Mississippi...
In 2016, an Azhdarchid cervical vertebra was described from the CoonCreekFormation of McNairy County, Tennessee and referred to Arambourgiania philadelphiae...
Ripley Formation in Mississippi and date back to the early Maastrichtian stage of the Late Cretaceous. Some fragmentary material from the CoonCreek Formation...
2012. The Late Campanian (Upper Cretaceous) Cephalopod Fauna of the CoonCreekFormation at the Type Locality. The Journal of Paleontological Sciences: JPS...
which the same formation is exposed. Such sites may have separate entries if they are considered to be more notable than the formation as a whole. In...
Formation in Vancouver) are cited as evidence of mosasaur predation on this genus. Eutrephoceras can be found in Late Jurassic to Miocene formations confirmed...
Feldmann; Carrie E. Schweitzer (2017). "Decapoda (Crustacea) of the CoonCreekFormation (Maastrichtian) of Mississippi and Tennessee". Bulletin of the Florida...
A. (1988). "A new crab, Seorsus wadei, from the Late Cretaceous CoonCreekFormation, Union Country, Mississippi". Proceedings of the Biological Society...
Crooked Creek (Mississippi River), a tributary of the Mississippi in Minnesota Crooked Creek (Bear Creek), a stream in Missouri Crooked Creek (CoonCreek),...
(2016). "The Late Cretaceous (upper Campanian) cephalopod fauna from the CoonCreek Science Center, McNairy County, Tennessee". Bulletin of the Alabama Museum...
Mining Trail. Retrieved 8 February 2016. "Haywood County Museum". Big Black Creek Historical Association. Retrieved 4 February 2016. "Attractions". Haywood...
bryozoan Voigtopora thurni on an oyster valve from the CoonCreek Beds of the Ripley Formation (Upper Cretaceous) near Blue Springs, Mississippi. Another...
Feldmann; Carrie E. Schweitzer (2017). "Decapoda (Crustacea) of the CoonCreekFormation (Maastrichtian) of Mississippi and Tennessee". Bulletin of the Florida...
Formation at Fossilworks.org Otter Point Formation at USGS Coon Hollow Formation at Fossilworks.org Coon Hollow Formation at USGS Lonesome Formation at...
above the falls. CoonCreek Falls, a 250-foot (76 m) plunge waterfall that drops into the Fall Creek Gorge, nearly adjacent Fall Creek Falls. Its proximity...
of four, but primarily grew up in Minnesota. Her parents rented homes in Coon Rapids, Nisswa, and Bloomington, Minnesota, before settling down in Plymouth...
rat". The colloquial abbreviation coon is used in words like coonskin for fur clothing and in phrases like old coon as a self-designation of trappers...
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Tennessee, 
Mississippi
USA