M 84 (Paleocene of the United States)

Also known as LGS 32

Where: Sabine County, Louisiana (31.6° N, 93.6° W: paleocoordinates 35.2° N, 76.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Marthaville Formation (Wilcox Group), Thanetian (59.2 - 56.0 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

• Collected from a calcareous silty ledge (Barry & LeBlanc 1942).

Size classes: macrofossils, 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 98923: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Laurie Eccles on 22.10.2010

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Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Neogastropoda - Buccinidae
 Neogastropoda - Volutidae
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
"Brachidontes stubbsi" = Brachidontes, "Modiolus (Brachydontes) stubbsi" = Brachidontes
"Brachidontes stubbsi" = Brachidontes mussel
"Modiolus (Brachydontes) stubbsi" = Brachidontes mussel