Also known as H-76-75
Where: Winn County, Louisiana (32.2° N, 92.1° W: paleocoordinates 33.3° N, 82.8° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Cockfield Formation, Lutetian to Lutetian (47.8 - 33.9 Ma)
• "Late Lutetian-Early Priabonian" (T. Hansen pers. comm.)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; unlithified, burrowed, argillaceous, calcareous siltstone
Collection methods: bulk, mechanical, sieve,
Primary reference: S. R. Elder. 1981. Fossil assemblages of a marine transgressive sand, Moody''s Branch Formation (Upper Eocene), Louisiana and Mississippi. Unpublished M.A. Thesis, University of Texas at Austin 1-140 [T. Hansen/M. Sommers/A. Clement]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 1294: authorized by Thor Hansen, entered by Mike Sommers on 08.04.1999, edited by Jocelyn Sessa
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Scaphopoda | |
Cadulus sp. Philippi 1844 tusk shell | |
Bivalvia | |
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Alveinus sinutus clam | |
Spisula jacksonensis clam | |
Callista annexa Conrad 1865 venus clam
Pitar securiformis Conrad 1865 venus clam | |
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Corbula sp. Bruguière 1789 clam | |
"Lucina curta" = Myrtaea (Myrtaea) curta
"Lucina curta" = Myrtaea (Myrtaea) curta Conrad 1865 clam | |
"Venericardia diversidentata" = Venericardia (Rotundicardia) diversidentata, Pleuromeris sp., Pleuromeris inflatior
"Venericardia diversidentata" = Venericardia (Rotundicardia) diversidentata Meyer 1885 clam
Pleuromeris sp. Conrad 1867 clam | |
Bathytormus flexurus Conrad 1854 clam
Crassinella pygmaea clam | |
Eburneopecten scintillatus Conrad 1854 scallop | |
Limopsis radiata Meyer 1885 clam | |
"Nucula spheniopsis" = Nucula (Nucula) sphenopsis
"Nucula spheniopsis" = Nucula (Nucula) sphenopsis Conrad 1865 nut clam | |
Hilgardia multilineata Conrad 1854 pointed nut clam | |
Gastropoda | |
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Architectonica bellistriata Conrad 1854 sundial | |
"Actaeon idoneus" = Acteon idoneus
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Calyptraphorus stamineus snail | |
"Coronia sp." = Gemmula (Coronia)
"Coronia sp." = Gemmula (Coronia) turrid | |
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Agaronia media Meyer 1885 snail | |
Euspira jacksonensis Harris and Palmer 1947 moon snail | |
Hipponix pygmaeus hoof shell | |
"Turritella alveata" = Kapalmerella alveata, "Turritella ? arenicola" = Kapalmerella arenicola
"Turritella alveata" = Kapalmerella alveata Conrad 1854 turret shell
"Turritella ? arenicola" = Kapalmerella arenicola Conrad 1865 turret shell originally entered as "Turritella ? arenicola"
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Bryozoa | |
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unclassified | |
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Gnathostomata | |
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