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
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 | |
Lapparia mooreana volute | |
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Hesperiturris nodocarinatus Gabb 1860 turrid | |
Pseudoliva vetusta Conrad 1833 true whelk | |
Levifusus mortoniopsis snail | |
Latirus moorei Gabb 1860 snail | |
Ancilla staminea Conrad 1832 olive snail | |
Fusimitra polita mitre shell | |
"Distorsio septemdentata" = Distorsio septendentata
"Distorsio septemdentata" = Distorsio septendentata triton shell | |
"Turritella infans" = Haustator infans Stenzel 1940 turret shell
Turritella houstonia turret shell
Mesalia claibornensis turret shell |