Where: Jackson County, Louisiana (32.3° N, 92.7° W: paleocoordinates 33.4° N, 83.8° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Cook Mountain Formation (Claiborne Group), Bartonian (41.3 - 38.0 Ma)
• "Three samples from the site were strontium dated forty-five million years old"
•Ivany - Cook Mt is Bartonian
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marginal marine; unlithified, gray, sandy claystone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: bulk, sieve,
• "Horizontal bulk samples were collected, disaggregated, sieved, and counted. Forty pounds of substrate were removed from a four inch horizontal layer near each lithological boundary ...These bulk samples were dried and a thirty pound sub-sample was boiled in Quaternary O solution until they disaggregated. The disaggregated sub-samples were sieved through USGS #10 and #14 sieves."
Primary reference: G. Zumwalt, J. Pratt, and J. Moncrief. 1995. Marine Macro-Invertebrate Paleoenvirionmental Interpretation of the Harvey Site (Cook Mountain, Eocene) in North-Central Louisiana. Mississippi Geology 16(1):12-21 [L. Ivany/P. Wall/P. Wall]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 44408: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Patrick Wall on 09.09.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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•A type collection was established from surface samples and identifed using Dockery (1980) and MacNeil and Dockery (1984). This collection was confirmed by David T. Dockery of the Mississippi Office of Geology."
Anthozoa | |
Discotrochus orbignianus stony coral | |
Balanophyllia sp. Wood 1844 stony coral | |
Gymnolaemata | |
Lunulites sp. Lamarck 1816 | |
unclassified | |
Annelida indet. Lamarck 1809 | |
Scaphopoda | |
Dentalium minutistriatum Gabb 1850 tusk shell | |
Bivalvia | |
Glycymeris trigonella Conrad 1833 clam | |
Cubitostrea sellaeformis Conrad 1832 oyster | |
Venericardia (Rotundicardia) rotunda Lea 1833 clam | |
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Nucula (Nucula) mauricensis Harris 1919 nut clam | |
Gastropoda | |
Architectonica sp. Röding 1798 sundial | |
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Neverita limula Conrad 1833 moon snail | |
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Conus sauridens Conrad 1833 cone shell | |
Caricella sp. Conrad 1835 volute | |
Marginella (Dentimargo) constrictoides margin shell |