Harvey Site - E (Eocene of the United States)

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"

•Samples taken from top of below described bed

•Ivany - Cook Mt is Bartonian

Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; unlithified, gray, red, sandy claystone

• "The Clairborn Group is composed of a transgressive sequence including the Cane River, Sparta, Cook Mountain, and Cockfield (Rainwater, 1982). Cockfield fluvial deposits are also present in this area. The Cook Mountain Formation was deposited during the latter part of the Clairborne stage of the Tejas sequence. It shows a transgression with the influence from the Mississippi and possibly a Ouachita source (McCarley, 1981). The Laramide and Mexican Cordilleran orogens contributed large amounts of sediment to the Gulf throughout the Eocene (Frazier and Schwimmer, 1987)."
• "2'9" Gray and Reddish Orange Variegated Sandy Clay"

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

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 44517: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Patrick Wall on 14.09.2004

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• "To obtain a minimum number of species, bivalve valves were counted and divided by two. A valve was counted if more than one-half of the shell remained or if a majority of the cardinal processes and one-third of the shell remained. Whole gastropods and recognizable spires were counted. For scaphopods the toal length of the species pieces was divided by the average length of the species. Remains of bryozoan colonies were counted as an individual. Solitary corals were counted as one organism if more than one-half of the theca remained.

•...

•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."

unclassified
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Pilicatula filamentosa
Pilicatula filamentosa concentrica
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Fungiidae
 Scleractinia - Flabellidae
Flabellum cuneiforme Lonsdale 1845 stony coral
Flabellum cuneiforme pachyphyllum
 Scleractinia - Dendrophylliidae
Balanophyllia sp. Wood 1844 stony coral
Endopachys lonsdalei Vaughan 1900 stony coral
Gastropoda
 Trochoidea - Solariellidae
Solariella tricostata Conrad 1833 snail
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
Turritella dutexata Harris 1895 turret shell
[entered as Turritella detexata]
 Neogastropoda - Olivellidae
Agaronia sp. Gray 1839 snail
 Neogastropoda - Fasciolariidae
 Neogastropoda - Melongenidae
Levifusus mortoniopsis snail
Levifusus mortoniopsis carexus
 Neogastropoda - Cochlespiridae
Cochlespira sp. Conrad 1865 snail
 Neogastropoda - Turridae
"Coronia margaritosa" = Gemmula (Coronia) turrid
Trypanotoma terebriformis Harris 1937 turrid
Trypanotoma terebriformis cooperi
 Neogastropoda - Marginellidae
 Neogastropoda - Volutidae
"Athleta petrosus" = Athleta petrosa
"Athleta petrosus" = Athleta petrosa Conrad 1833 volute
 Sorbeoconcha - Ficidae
"Ficopsis sp." = Ficus
"Ficopsis sp." = Ficus Röding 1798 fig shell
 Sorbeoconcha - Personidae
Distorsio sp. Röding 1798 snail
 Heterostropha - Architectonicidae
Architectonica sp. Röding 1798 sundial
 Opisthobranchia - Retusidae
Retusa (Cylichnina) galba Conrad 1833 snail
Bivalvia
 Arcida - Arcidae
 Arcida - Glycymerididae
Glycymeris trigonella Conrad 1833 clam
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Eburneopecten sp. Conrad 1865 scallop
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
Cubitostrea sellaeformis Conrad 1832 oyster
 Pholadida - Corbulidae
 Cardiida - Veneridae
Callista (Callista) perovata Conrad 1833 venus clam
Callista (Callista) perovata lisbone
 Carditida - Carditidae
 Carditida - Crassatellidae
Crassatella texalta Harris 1895 clam
 Nuculida - Nuculidae
Nucula (Nucula) mauricensis Harris 1919 nut clam
Scaphopoda
 Gadilida - Gadilidae
 Dentaliida - Dentaliidae
Dentalium minutistriatum Gabb 1850 tusk shell
Gymnolaemata
 Cheilostomata - Lunulitidae
Lunulites sp. Lamarck 1816
 Cheilostomata - Lepraliellidae
"Holoporella granulosa" = Celleporaria
"Holoporella granulosa" = Celleporaria
unclassified
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Annelida indet. Lamarck 1809
(tubes)