Where: Mississippi (32.0° N, 89.0° W: paleocoordinates 32.7° N, 80.1° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Cook Mountain Formation (Claiborne Group), Bartonian (41.3 - 38.0 Ma)
• formation-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 98571: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Ursula Smith on 10.10.2010, edited by Laurie Eccles
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Bivalvia | |
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"Crassatella texana" = Crassatellites texana, "Lirodiscus (Crustuloides) psychopterus" = Crassatellites (Scambula) psychopterus
"Crassatella texana" = Crassatellites texana Harris 1895 clam
"Lirodiscus (Crustuloides) psychopterus" = Crassatellites (Scambula) psychopterus Dall 1903 clam | |
Venericardia (Rotundicardia) rotunda Lea 1833 clam |