PRI 2228 (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Sabine County, Louisiana (31.4° N, 93.6° W: paleocoordinates 32.4° N, 84.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Cook Mountain Formation (Claiborne Group), Bartonian (41.3 - 38.0 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: mesofossils

Collection methods: Cornell University Station.

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 91116: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Laurie Eccles on 05.09.2009

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
 Pectinida - Plicatulidae
Plicatula filamentosa2 Conrad 1833 scallop
Plicatula filamentosa concentrica
 Pectinida - Propeamussiidae
"Amusium (Propeamussium) cf. squamulum" = Propeamussium2
"Amusium (Propeamussium) cf. squamulum" = Propeamussium2 mud scallop
Amusium (Propeamussium) cf. squamulum
 Ostreida - Ostreidae