Where: Ouachita County, Louisiana (32.5° N, 92.1° W: paleocoordinates 33.8° N, 81.8° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Claiborne Group, Lutetian to Lutetian (47.8 - 38.0 Ma)
• Could be Weches or Cook Mountain formation.
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: mesofossils
Collection methods: A.C. Veatch
Primary reference: K. V. Palmer and D. C. Brann. 1965. Catalogue of the Paleocene and Eocene mollusca of the southern and eastern United States. Part 1. Pelecypoda, Amphineura, Peteropoda, Scaphopoda and Cephalopoda. Bulletins of American Paleontology 48:1-471 [M. Kosnik/M. Kosnik/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 90470: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Laurie Eccles on 29.07.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Polinices aratus moon snail
Neverita "spp. B" Risso 1826 moon snail | |
"Distorsio (Personella) septemdentata" = Sassia (Personella) septemdentata
"Distorsio (Personella) septemdentata" = Sassia (Personella) septemdentata Gabb 1860 triton shell | |
Marginella (Dentimargo) constrictoides margin shell | |
Bivalvia | |
Yoldia (Calorhadia) compsa Gabb 1860 pointed nut clam | |
"Nuculana magna" = Polidevcia magna
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