Usage:
Tupelo Tongue of Coffee Sand (MS*)
Subunits:
Informal Chapelville fossiliferous horizon.
Geologic age:
Late Cretaceous (Campanian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
1.5 mi east of Tupelo in abandoned cut of Fulton Road on westward-facing slope of Old Town Creek Valley, in sec. 33, T. 9 S., R. 6 E., Lee Co., MS (Stephenson, 1917).
AAPG geologic province:
Black Warrior basin*
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