Where: Natchitoches County, Louisiana (31.7° N, 93.2° W: paleocoordinates 34.5° N, 78.8° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Pendleton Ferry Formation (Wilcox Group), Ypresian (56.0 - 47.8 Ma)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; unlithified, fine-grained, brown, red sandstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Preservation: mold/impression
Primary reference: J. O. Barry and R. J. LeBlanc. 1942. Lower Eocene Faunal Units of Lousiana. Geological Bulletin of the state of Louisiana Dept. of Conservation (23)1-208 [J. Sessa/L. Eccles/L. Eccles]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 105208: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Laurie Eccles on 17.02.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
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"Cardium (Cerastoderma) tuomeyi" = Acanthocardia (Schedocardia) tuomeyi
"Cardium (Cerastoderma) tuomeyi" = Acanthocardia (Schedocardia) tuomeyi Aldrich 1886 cockle Cardium (Cerastoderma) tuomeyi var.
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Tellina bellsiana tellin clam | |
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Gastropoda | |
Levifusus trabeatus Conrad 1858 snail | |
Tritonidea pachecoi true whelk | |
Voluta newcombiana volute | |
Polinices harrisii moon snail | |
"Turritella mortoni" = Kapalmerella mortoni
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