Where: Ouachita County, Louisiana (32.5° N, 92.1° W: paleocoordinates 33.5° N, 83.2° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Cook Mountain Formation (Claiborne Group), Bartonian (41.3 - 38.0 Ma)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Primary reference: G. D. Harris. 1919. Pelecypoda of the St. Maurice and Claiborne stages. Bulletins of American Paleontology 6(31):1-208 [J. Sessa/L. Eccles]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 106950: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Laurie Eccles on 30.03.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
"Yoldia (Orthoyoldia) psammotaea" = Orthoyoldia psammotaea
"Yoldia (Orthoyoldia) psammotaea" = Orthoyoldia psammotaea Dall 1898 pointed nut clam |