Where: Rusk County, Texas (31.9° N, 95.0° W: paleocoordinates 34.9° N, 80.6° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Newby Sand Member (Reklaw Formation), Early/Lower Eocene (55.8 - 48.6 Ma)
• Middle 4'-15' was named the Newby Sand Member and the upper 100' the Marquez Shale Member.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; unlithified, glauconitic claystone
Size class: mesofossils
Collection methods: bulk, surface (in situ),
Primary reference: C. L. Garvie. 1996. The Molluscan Macrofauna of the Reklaw Formation, Marquez Member (Eocene: Lower Claibornian), in Texas. Bulletins of American Paleontology 111(352):1-177 [L. Ivany/E. Kowalski]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 83949: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Jocelyn Sessa on 10.09.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Annelida indet. Lamarck 1809 | |
Bivalvia | |
Venericardia sp. Lamarck 1801 clam | |
? Panopea sp. Menard 1807 clam | |
? Tellina sp. Linnaeus 1758 tellin clam | |
? Pitar sp. Römer 1857 venus clam | |
? Corbula sp. Bruguière 1789 clam | |
Barbatia sp. Gray 1842 clam | |
Pteria sp. Scopoli 1777 pearl oyster | |
Hyotissa offemanae n. sp.
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Litorhadia "sp. A" Stewart 1930 pointed nut clam
Litorhadia "sp. B" Stewart 1930 pointed nut clam | |
Gastropoda | |
? Cerithium sp. Bruguière 1789 cerith snail | |
"Tritiaria nodosa n. sp." = Nassarius (Tritiaria)
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Turridae indet. Swainson 1840 turrid | |
Cochlespira aff. engonata Conrad 1865 snail | |
Athleta sp. Conrad 1853 volute | |
Natica moffitti n. sp.
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Anthozoa | |
? Trochocyathus sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral |