M 567 (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)

• 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 98868: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Ursula Smith on 21.10.2010, edited by Laurie Eccles

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Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
 Sorbeoconcha - Ovulidae
Simnia texana Johnson 1899 snail
 Neogastropoda - Turridae
Bivalvia
 Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Nuculana trivitate pointed nut clam
 Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
 Cardiida - Veneridae
Rhabdopitaria astartoides Gardner 1923 venus clam
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
 Carditida - Crassatellidae
Crassinella minor Lea 1833 clam
Crassatella texalta1 Harris 1895 clam
 Arcida - Arcidae
Pachecoa (Pachecoa) pulchra2 clam
Pachecoa (Pachecoa) pulchra variations