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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Turritella houstonia turret shell | |
Simnia texana Johnson 1899 snail | |
Trypanotopsis texana turrid
Eucheilodon reticulata turrid | |
Bivalvia | |
Nuculana trivitate pointed nut clam | |
Pholadomya harrisi clam | |
Rhabdopitaria astartoides Gardner 1923 venus clam | |
Nemocardium gambrinum cockle | |
Crassinella minor Lea 1833 clam | |
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