CROCK-1 (Eocene of the United States)

Also known as Crockett

Where: Houston County, Texas (31.3° N, 95.5° W: paleocoordinates 32.6° N, 86.7° W)

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

Environment/lithology: lithology not reported

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 205448: authorized by William Foster, entered by William Foster on 15.10.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Heterostropha - Architectonicidae
Architectonica acuta Conrad 1854 sundial
 Sorbeoconcha - Naticidae
Sinum arctatum moon snail
 Neogastropoda - Melongenidae
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae