PRI 7 (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Caldwell County, Louisiana (32.0° N, 92.0° W: paleocoordinates 33.0° N, 83.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Moodys Branch Formation (Jackson Group), Bartonian (41.3 - 38.0 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; unlithified, argillaceous, calcareous siltstone

• Environment from PBDB collection #1418
• Contains burrows unlithified argillaceous,calcareous siltstone-lithological description and Environment from PBDB collection #1418

Size class: mesofossils

Primary reference: K. V. Palmer and D. C. Brann. 1965. Catalogue of the Paleocene and Eocene mollusca of the southern and eastern United States. Part 1. Pelecypoda, Amphineura, Peteropoda, Scaphopoda and Cephalopoda. Bulletins of American Paleontology 48:1-471 [M. Kosnik/M. Kosnik/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 90449: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Laurie Eccles on 24.07.2009, edited by Jocelyn Sessa

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Scaphopoda
 Dentaliida - Dentaliidae
Dentalium (Antalis) mississippiense Conrad 1848 tusk shell
Dentalium (Antalis) mississippiense jacksonense
Gastropoda
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
"Turritella alveata" = Kapalmerella alveata
"Turritella alveata" = Kapalmerella alveata Conrad 1854 turret shell
 Sorbeoconcha - Naticidae
Natica permunda Conrad 1854 moon snail
 Neogastropoda - Mitridae
"Mitra (Fusimitra) millingtoni" = Mitra (Fusimitra) mellingtoni
"Mitra (Fusimitra) millingtoni" = Mitra (Fusimitra) mellingtoni Conrad 1854 mitre shell
 Neogastropoda - Fasciolariidae
Papillina dumosa Conrad 1854 snail
 Neogastropoda - Buccinidae
Pseudoliva vetusta Conrad 1833 true whelk
Pseudoliva vetusta perspectiva
 Neogastropoda - Volutidae
Lapparia dumosa Conrad 1854 volute
Including Lapparia dumosa exiqua
Athleta symmetricus Conrad 1854 volute
 Neogastropoda - Muricidae
Hexaplex (Hexaplex) katherinae Vokes 1968 murex snail
Pterynotus (Pterynotus) weisbordi Harris and Palmer 1947 mustached bat
 Neogastropoda - Conidae
"Conus tortilis" = Conus sauridens
"Conus tortilis" = Conus sauridens Conrad 1833 cone shell
 Neogastropoda - Turridae
Scobinella louisianae Harris 1937 turrid
 Sorbeoconcha - Rostellariidae
 Sorbeoconcha - Strombidae
Platyoptera extenta Conrad 1854 true conch
 Sorbeoconcha - Xenophoridae
Xenophora reclusa carrier shell
Bivalvia
 Pholadida - Corbulidae
"Corbula (Caryocorbula) willistoni" = Caryocorbula willistoni
"Corbula (Caryocorbula) willistoni" = Caryocorbula willistoni Meyer 1885 clam
 Cardiida - Cardiidae