Where: Bastrop County, Texas (30.0° N, 97.1° W: paleocoordinates 31.3° N, 88.5° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Cook Mountain Formation (Claiborne Group), Bartonian (41.3 - 38.0 Ma)
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: mesofossils
Collection methods: Collected by J. Wells for G.D.Harris collection.
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 90886: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Laurie Eccles on 22.08.2009, edited by Ursula Smith
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Tellina tallicheti tellin clam | |
Nemocardium gambrinum cockle | |
"Timothynus anterproductus" = Diplodonta (Timothynus)
"Timothynus anterproductus" = Diplodonta (Timothynus) clam | |
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Gastropoda | |
Architectonica aldrichi sundial | |
Latirus moorei Gabb 1860 snail
Clavilithes penrosei snail
Clavilithes regexus snail
Clavilithes texanus snail | |
Terebra (Mirula) texagyra auger snail | |
Eosurcula moorei Gabb 1860 turrid
Cochlespiropsis engonata turrid | |
Cochlespira engonata Conrad 1865 snail | |
Caricella cherokeensis volute
Lapparia mooreana volute | |
Sinum declive Conrad 1833 moon snail
Natica spp. Scopoli 1777 moon snail
Polinices aratus moon snail |