M 567: Bartonian, Texas

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Nuculana trivitate
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
Nemocardium gambrinum
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
Rhabdopitaria astartoides (Gardner 1923)
Bivalvia - Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
Pholadomya harrisi
Bivalvia - Carditida - Crassatellidae
Crassatella texalta Harris 1895
Dockery 1980
Crassinella minor (Lea 1833)
original and current combination Astarte minor
Bivalvia - Arcida - Arcidae
Pachecoa (Pachecoa) pulchra
Harris 1919
Pachecoa (Pachecoa) pulchra variations
Barbatia (Cucullaearca) ludoviciana
Harris 1919
Gastropoda - Ovulidae
Simnia texana (Johnson 1899)
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Turridae
Trypanotopsis texana
Eucheilodon reticulata
Gastropoda - Turritellidae
Turritella houstonia
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Texas County:Houston
Coordinates: 31.3° North, 95.5° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:32.5° North, 86.7° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Eocene
Stage:Bartonian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 3
Key time interval:Bartonian
Age range of interval:41.20000 - 37.71000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Claiborne Formation:Cook Mountain
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:98868
Authorizer:J. Sessa Enterer:U. Smith, L. Eccles
Modifier:L. Eccles Research group:GCP,marine invertebrate
Created:2010-10-21 18:35:42 Last modified:2010-12-12 15:05:13
Access level:group members Released:2015-10-21 18:35:42
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]
35561 G. D. Harris. 1919. Pelecypoda of the St. Maurice and Claiborne stages. Bulletins of American Paleontology 6(31):1-208 [J. Sessa/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]