Also known as H76-76
Where: Winn County, Louisiana (31.8° N, 93.0° W: paleocoordinates 33.5° N, 81.8° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Saline Bayou Member (Cook Mountain Formation), Lutetian (47.8 - 41.3 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; unlithified, bioturbated, glauconitic, silty claystone
Collection methods: bulk, mechanical, sieve,
Primary reference: T. A. Hansen. 1978. Ecological control of evolutionary rates in Paleocene - Eocene marine molluscs. Ph.D. Thesis, Yale University 1-310 [T. Hansen/M. Sommers/A. Clement]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 1454: authorized by Thor Hansen, entered by Mike Sommers on 20.04.1999
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Scaphopoda | |
Cadulus sp. Philippi 1844 tusk shell | |
Bivalvia | |
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Nuculana wautubbeana pointed nut clam
Orthoyoldia psammotaea Dall 1898 pointed nut clam
Calorhadia opulenta pointed nut clam | |
"Nucula mauricensis" = Nucula (Nucula) mauricensis
"Nucula mauricensis" = Nucula (Nucula) mauricensis Harris 1919 nut clam | |
Bathytormus sp. Stewart 1930 clam | |
"Venericardia cf. alticostata" = Venericardia (Claibornicardia) alticostata
"Venericardia cf. alticostata" = Venericardia (Claibornicardia) alticostata Conrad 1833 clam originally entered as "Venericardia cf. alticostata"
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Abra sp. Lamarck 1818 abra | |
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Eburneopecten scintillatus Conrad 1854 scallop | |
Plicatula filamentosa Conrad 1833 scallop | |
Limopsis aviculoides Conrad 1862 clam | |
Gastropoda | |
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"Architectonica alveata" = Architectonica (Stellaxis) alveatum
"Architectonica alveata" = Architectonica (Stellaxis) alveatum Conrad 1833 sundial | |
"Turritella cf. carinata" = Haustator carinata
"Turritella cf. carinata" = Haustator carinata Lea 1833 turret shell originally entered as "Turritella cf. carinata"
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"cf. Natica semilunata" = Natica (Naticarius) semilunata, Polinices aratus
"cf. Natica semilunata" = Natica (Naticarius) semilunata Lea 1833 moon snail originally entered as "cf. Natica semilunata"
Polinices aratus moon snail | |
Athleta clayi volute | |
Latirus moorei Gabb 1860 snail | |
Anthozoa | |
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