Nina Baghai-Riding

Delta State University · Division of Math and Sciences

A palynological sample from the Coon Creek Member in Mississippi

Oligocene palynological samples from southern Mississippi. It includes samples from the Forest Hill Formation, Bucatunna Formation, and Jones Branch Member of the Catahoula Formation.

ABSTRACT: The need to transform the undergraduate laboratory experience has been well documented in the literature. One proposed method is through the use of Course-based Undergraduate Research Experiences (CURE’s). Incorporating CURE’s has been linked to fostering interest in the natural sciences, improving retention of students in STEM discipline...

Two palynological samples from the Oligocene Forest Hill Formation in MS. The web-link is provided here: https://sebiologists.confex.com/sebiologists/2021/poster/eposterview.cgi?eposterid=94

Refer to the following web-link: https://serc.carleton.edu/earth_rendezvous/2020/program/talks/session2/237502.html

This research concerns plant microfossils and megafossils from the Forest Hill Formation in Smith County.

An overview of the field trips and activities that pertained to the Paleontology Outreach and Education grant that was awarded to Delta State University by the Paleontological Society. http://www.memphisgeology.org/images/rocknews0620.pdf

Drs. Baghai-Riding and Kagumba received a Paleontological Outreach Education Grant from the Paleontological Society in June 2019. Emphasis of this grant was to enrich field experiences and interactive educational hands-on activities that would improve scientific awareness of paleontological resources and methods for K-12 students and educators. Par...

The chemistry of 21 noncommercial fruit spreads were analyzed with the local soil types. This study incorporated the JEOL scanning electron microscope at Delta State University and the NRCS soil website.

Data of vernal pools located at Dahomey National Wildlife Refuge in Mississippi is provided. The data spans 2006 - 2019 and focuses on aquatic invertebrates.

The Jones Branch locality occurs in the lower part of the Catahoula Formation in Wayne County, Mississippi. The basal clays signify an emergent delta that is directly adjacent to the Paynes Hammock limestone. These clays contain a vertebrate assemblage of rodents, carnivores, sierenians, reptiles, amphibians, sharks, and more. Adjacent dark gray-gr...

The Delta State University Herbarium (DSC), located on the campus of Delta State University (DSU), has been in existence since the 1930s. It represents one of several major herbaria that exist in Mississippi. Its purpose is to serve as an educational resource for Biology and Environmental Science classes taught at DSU as well as a research collecti...

The Delta State University Herbarium (DSC), located on the campus of Delta State University has been in existence since the 1930s. Currently, the collection contains more than 17,000 specimens from 43 states and eight countries. This poster provides information has to what has been entered into the SERNEC database through December 2018.

Locally grown fruit jams were turned into ash. The chemistry of the ash was analyzed using a JEOL scanning electron microscope. The chemistry of the ash correlated to the soils that the fruits grew on. This type of research can provide insight with regards to environmental health.

The late Pleistocene of North America is characterized by vertebrate animals (mostly mammals weighing ≥ 44 kg) including Mammut americanum (American mastodon), Bison spp. (bison), Megalonyx jeffersonii, and Arctodus simus. Disarticulated skeletal elements of vertebrate fauna are frequently exposed on floodplain and gravel bar deposits after floodwa...

Few Miocene terrestrial units exist in the southeastern United States of America so the discovery of plant megafossils and microfossils makes this portion of the Hattiesburg Formation particularly significant in providing taphonomic and paleoclimatic implications. The Bowie River leaf locale in Forrest County Mississippi contains plant leaf megafos...

Exposures of the Upper Cretaceous Coon Creek Member of the Ripley Formation occur in Alcorn, Tippah, and Union counties in Mississippi. Its lithology consists of dark-gray to black, fossiliferous clays and silty, micaceous sands. The Coon Creek Member is known for its wellpreserved and diverse assortment of marine gastropods, bivalves, ammonites, c...

The taphonomy and taxonomy, sedimentology, vegetation, floristics, phytogeography, paleoclimate, plant-herbivore interactions, and more regarding palynomorphs from the Morrison Formation are discussed.

The Bucatunna Formation (early Oligocene) is regarded as a coastal/nearshore, low energy, marine depositional environment comprising of lagoonal, bentonitic, dark, and mainly sparsely fossiliferous, carbonaceous clay. One random palynological sample was collected from a clay lens associated with a megafossil leaf locality. It possessed well-preserv...

The rural Mississippi Delta is a high poverty agricultural region that is a critical needs area for science education. Schools are poor, with little ability to attract and retain highly qualified teachers. To address the high regional needs, we implemented a three-pronged approach that included building and strengthening community partnerships; tar...

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Native plant communities support a diverse biota of invertebrates, birds, and other wildlife, and are therefore essential to the health of ecosystems. Agriculture and urban development have eliminated most native plant communities through forest clearing and introduction of exotic, invasive plants. Prior to European settlement, bottomland hardwood...

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The Triassic Lykins Formation, a succession of red sandstone and shale, overlies Permian–Triassic eolian deposits of the Lyons Formation in the Colorado Springs region. These dominantly terrestrial deposits contain one to two 45–79 cm thick stromatolite beds and associated minor intraclast conglomerate. Above the Lykins lies strata of uncertain str...

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Abstract: The marine Oxfordian Smackover Formation is an important oil- and gas-producing carbonate unit that subcrops in the northern Gulf of Mexico. The formation consists of three carbonate dominated units, each separated by thin (up to 15 m), black, laminated shales and siltstones. The siliciclastic units are thought to mark lowstand systems tr...

McNairy palynomorphs from Alcorn and Tippah Counties were highlighted. This presentation was given to the Memphis Archeological and Geological Society. The uploaded file was updated after it was presented.

The Smackover Formation, an important oil-and gas-producing carbonate unit that subcrops in the northern Gulf of Mexico, was deposited along the slope and shelf of the Gulf Coast embayment during the middle to upper Oxfordian, Three palynological samples were processed from this unit Samples contained abundant dinoflagellates, conifers represented...

Abstract # 1051 (Recent Topics poster presentation) http://www.botanyconference.org/engine/search/index.php?func=detail&aid=1051

Eight palynological samples from a broad geographical range of the upper part of the Morrison Formation have yielded a rich palynoflora of over 100 morphospecies of bryophytes, lycophytes, sphenophytes, ferns, and seed plants. In striking contrast to Morrison megafloras, conifers are dominant throughout the palynoflora, with ferns diverse but subor...

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The Late Jurassic Morrison Formation extends across the Western Interior of the U.S.A. and as equivalent formations into Canada. Its rich and diverse vertebrate fauna is well known, but its vegetation remains poorly understood. Sparse plant megafloras, consisting of leaves or permineralized axes, include cycads, cycadeoids, tree ferns, conifers and...

The diversity of cranial and postcranial elements of dinosaur remains, early mammals and palynomorphs in the Aguja Formation (Campanian) rivals many other Upper Cretaceous localities. Recently, a large, globular reptilian multi-tier coprolite, 5.9 in (15 cm) in length, 3.5 in. (9 cm) in width, and 4.7 in. (12 cm) in height, of all unknown origin, w...

The Aguja Formation (Campanian) rivals many other Upper Cretaceous localities with regards to the diversity of cranial and postcranial elements of dinosaur remains, early mammals and palynomorphs. Recently a large, globular reptilian multi-tier coprolite (15 cm in length, 9 cm in width and 12 cm in height) of an unknown origin, was collected from t...

A brief presentation on the microflora and megaflora that occurs in the Aguja Formation.

The North American record of Upper Cretaceous megafossil plant localities is derived mainly from the Atlantic Coastal Plain, the central and northern Rocky Mountain region, and California. A significant gap has existed in the fossil record concerning plant fossil sites that bordered the southwestern margin of the former Western Interior Seaway. A p...

Facies architecture, structure, and diagenesis control reservoir geometry and distribution of remaining oil in shoreface, fluvial, and deltaic reservoirs of Miocene age in the 18-mi2 (46.7-km2) Mioceno Norte Area in northern Lake Maracaibo. This mature field is undergoing depletion and nearing the final stages of primary recovery. Although the area...

Facies architecture, structure, and diagenesis control reservoir geometry and distribution of remaining oil in shoreface, fluvial, and deltaic reservoirs of Miocene age in the 18-mi2 (46.7-km2) Mioceno Norte Area in northern Lake Maracaibo. This mature field is undergoing depletion and nearing the final stages of primary recovery. Although the area...

The Musselshell Creek flora (12.0-10.5 Ma) of northern Idaho is used to reconstruct paleoclimatic and paleoecologic parameters of the Pacific Northwest during the late Middle Miocene. Other megafossil and microfossil floral records spanning 12.0-6.4 Ma are unknown from this region. The Musselshell Creek fossil flora, previously undescribed, is pres...

Abstract: Classification and Analysis of Palynomorphs of the Aguja Formation (Campanian), Big Bend National Park Brewster County Texas Nina Lucille Baghai Exposures of the Aguja Formation (84-74.5 m.y.) at Big Bend National Park contain deltaic sequences deposited on the southwestern margin of the Western Interior seaway. Nearshore marine shelf s...

Disarticulated elements from three individuals of Mammuthus cf. M. columbi (Falconer) and one individual of Bison cf. B. latifrons (Harlan) were recovered from an excavation in gravelly, sandy clay of the Colma Formation at the southeast base of Telegraph Hill, San Francisco, California. This is the most abundant collection of late Pleistocene terr...

The various types of Baptanodon found in the Jurassic of North America. The abstract can be found in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 9(3A): 11A.

Typescript (photocopy). "Master's essay"--University of Rochester, 1988. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 42-44).

Miocene Liriodendron carpels, whole fruiting structures and leaves from Clarkia and Oviatt Creek sites in northern Idaho are preserved as imprints and compressed fossils in soft lacustrine clays. The isolated carpels are indistinguishable from those described as L. hesperia Berry from the Spokane Latah flora. Fruit aggregates from the type Clarkia...

Organic geochemical analyses are presented for a fossil Liriodendron sp. from the Miocene, Clarkia Flora of Northern Idaho. Flavonoid profiles determined for the fossil and two extent species of Liriodendron (L. chinense and L. tulipifera) confirm the generic status of the fossil material, but owing to a generic uniformity in flavonoid composition,...

Liriodendron leaves, carpels, and fruit aggregates are discussed that were discovered in Miocene fossil localities in northern Idaho and eastern Washington. Some of these specimens are preserved as imprints, but compressed fossils possessing actual leaf and fruit tissue were preserved at the P33 Clarkia site. Studies were made comparing the Miocene...