NAC-1 (Eocene of the United States)

Also known as Nacogdoches

Where: Nacogdoches County, Texas (31.6° N, 94.8° W: paleocoordinates 33.5° N, 83.7° W)

When: Weches Formation (Claiborne Group), Lutetian (47.8 - 41.3 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 205504: authorized by William Foster, entered by William Foster on 15.10.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Orthoyoldia sp. Verrill 1897 pointed nut clam
Litorhadia sp. Stewart 1930 pointed nut clam