PRI 8: Priabonian, Louisiana

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Scaphopoda - Dentaliida - Dentaliidae
Dentalium (Antalis) mississippiense (Conrad 1848)
Dockery 1980
Dentalium (Antalis) mississippiense jacksonense
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
Pitar (Pitar) securiformis Conrad 1865
Gastropoda - Naticidae
Euspira jacksonensis Harris and Palmer 1947
Polinices weisbordi ()
Dockery 1980
Natica permunda Conrad 1854
Gastropoda - Triforidae
Cerithiella ouachitensis Harris and Palmer 1947
Gastropoda - Rostellariidae
Calyptraphorus stamineus
Dockery 1980
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Muricidae
Hexaplex (Hexaplex) marksi (Harris 1894)
Dockery 1980
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Volutidae
Athleta symmetricus Conrad 1854
Dockery 1980
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Borsoniidae
Pseudotoma heilprini Aldrich 1885
Pseudotoma heilprini gibsoni
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Buccinidae
Pseudoliva vetusta (Conrad 1833)
Dockery 1980
original and current combination Monoceros vetusta
Pseudoliva vetusta perspectiva
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Fasciolariidae
Clavilithes humerosus
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Acteonidae
Lithophysema grande
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Louisiana County:Caldwell
Coordinates: 32.0° North, 92.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:32.7° North, 84.2° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Eocene
Stage:Priabonian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 3
Key time interval:Priabonian
Age range of interval:37.71000 - 33.90000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Jackson Formation:Yazoo Clay Member:Tullos
Stratigraphic resolution:member
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: marl
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: Collected by G.D. Harris, October 1940.
Metadata
Database number:92298
Authorizer:J. Sessa Enterer:L. Eccles
Modifier:L. Eccles Research group:GCP,marine invertebrate
Created:2009-11-05 07:52:58 Last modified:2010-10-18 16:19:09
Access level:group members Released:2014-11-05 07:52:58
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

11845. 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]

Secondary references:

11842 D. T. Dockery. 1980. Invertebrate Macropaleontolgy of the Clarke County Mississippi Area. Bulletin - Mississippi Geological, Economic and Topographic Survey 122 [M. Kosnik/M. Kosnik/L. Eccles]
11846 K. V. Palmer and D. C. Brann. 1966. Catalogue of the Paleocene and Eocene Mollusks of the Southern and Eastern United States Part II. Gastropoda. Bulletins of American Paleontology 48:471-1057 [M. Kosnik/M. Kosnik/J. Sessa]