Also known as H-76-75
Where: Winn County, Louisiana (32.2° N, 92.1° W: paleocoordinates 33.2° N, 83.2° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Moodys Branch Formation, Bartonian (41.3 - 38.0 Ma)
• "Late Lutetian - Early Priabonian" (T. Hansen, pers. comm.)
•age after Stringer (2016)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; unlithified, burrowed, glauconitic, silty, calcareous shale
Size class: macrofossils
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 Unpublished M.A. Thesis, University of Texas at Austin 1-140 [T. Hansen/M. Sommers/A. Clement]more details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 1415: authorized by Thor Hansen, entered by Mike Sommers on 13.04.1999, edited by Jocelyn Sessa
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Hipponix pygmaeus hoof shell | |
Bivalvia | |
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Hilgardia multilineata Conrad 1854 pointed nut clam | |
"Nucula spheniopsis" = Nucula (Nucula) sphenopsis
"Nucula spheniopsis" = Nucula (Nucula) sphenopsis Conrad 1865 nut clam | |
Verticordia cossmanni Dall 1903 clam | |
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Corbula densata Conrad 1854 clam | |
"Kelliella boetgeri" = Kelliella boettgeri, Alveinus minutus
"Kelliella boetgeri" = Kelliella boettgeri clam
Alveinus minutus Conrad 1865 clam | |
"Lucina curta" = Myrtaea (Myrtaea) curta
"Lucina curta" = Myrtaea (Myrtaea) curta Conrad 1865 clam | |
Bathytormus flexurus Conrad 1854 clam | |
Pleuromeris inflatior, "Venericardia diversidentata" = Venericardia (Rotundicardia) diversidentata
"Venericardia diversidentata" = Venericardia (Rotundicardia) diversidentata Meyer 1885 clam | |
Eburneopecten scintillatus Conrad 1854 scallop | |
Ostrea sp. Linnaeus 1758 oyster | |
Anthozoa | |
Discotrochus sp. Milne-Edwards 1848 stony coral | |
Balanophyllia irrorata stony coral
Endopachys maclurii Lea 1833 stony coral | |
"Flabellum cuniforme" = Flabellum cuneiforme
"Flabellum cuniforme" = Flabellum cuneiforme Lonsdale 1845 stony coral |