2MC-B Two Mile Creek (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Leon County, Texas (31.1° N, 95.9° W: paleocoordinates 32.4° N, 87.2° W)

When: Cook Mountain Formation (Claiborne Group), Bartonian (41.3 - 38.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; poorly lithified claystone

• clay and marl

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by Christopher Garvie

Primary reference: W. J. Foster, C. L. Garvie, A. M. Weiss, A. D. Muscente, M. Aberhan, J. W. Counts, and R. C. Martindale. 2020. Resilience of marine invertebrate communities during the early Cenozoic hyperthermals. Scientific Reports 10:2176 [A. Miller/J. Sessa/W. Foster]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 205265: authorized by William Foster, entered by William Foster on 10.10.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Neogastropoda - Volutidae
Caricella demissa Conrad 1848 volute
texana
 Neogastropoda - Borsoniidae
Cordiera ludoviciana Vaughn 1896 snail
mississippiensis
 Neogastropoda - Turridae
Eosurcula moorei Gabb 1860 turrid
gamma
 Neogastropoda - Buccinidae
Pseudoliva vetusta Conrad 1833 true whelk
 Neogastropoda - Melongenidae
 Neogastropoda - Fasciolariidae
Latirus moorei Gabb 1860 snail
Papillina dumosa Conrad 1854 snail
trapaquara
 Neogastropoda - Olividae
Ancilla staminea Conrad 1832 olive snail
 Neogastropoda - Mitridae
Fusimitra polita mitre shell
 Sorbeoconcha - Ranellidae
"Distorsio septemdentata" = Distorsio septendentata
"Distorsio septemdentata" = Distorsio septendentata triton shell
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
"Turritella infans" = Haustator infans Stenzel 1940 turret shell
Turritella houstonia turret shell
Mesalia claibornensis turret shell