M 387 (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Houston County, Texas (31.3° N, 95.5° W: paleocoordinates 32.5° N, 86.7° 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

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 92212: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Laurie Eccles on 03.11.2009, edited by Ursula Smith

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Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Neogastropoda - Fasciolariidae
 Neogastropoda - Borsoniidae
Microdrillia spp. Casey 1903 snail
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Pteriidae
Pteria limula Conrad 1833 pearl oyster
 Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae