Where: Cherokee County, Texas (31.7° N, 95.1° W: paleocoordinates 33.6° N, 83.9° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Weches Formation (Claiborne Group), Lutetian (47.8 - 41.3 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 98809: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Ursula Smith on 21.10.2010, edited by Laurie Eccles
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Eburneopecten sp. Conrad 1865 scallop | |
"Crassatella texana" = Crassatellites texana
"Crassatella texana" = Crassatellites texana Harris 1895 clam | |
Martesia texana clam | |
Gastropoda | |
"Ectinochilus texanum" = Rimella
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