M 389 (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 92214: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Laurie Eccles on 03.11.2009, edited by Ursula Smith

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Yoldia (Calorhadia) compsa Gabb 1860 pointed nut clam
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
"Mauricia houstonia" = Modiola houstonia
"Mauricia houstonia" = Modiola houstonia Harris 1895 mussel
Gastropoda
 Neogastropoda - Fasciolariidae