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
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 | |
Dentalium (Antalis) mississippiense Conrad 1848 tusk shell Dentalium (Antalis) mississippiense jacksonense
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Gastropoda | |
"Turritella alveata" = Kapalmerella alveata
"Turritella alveata" = Kapalmerella alveata Conrad 1854 turret shell | |
Natica permunda Conrad 1854 moon snail | |
"Mitra (Fusimitra) millingtoni" = Mitra (Fusimitra) mellingtoni
"Mitra (Fusimitra) millingtoni" = Mitra (Fusimitra) mellingtoni Conrad 1854 mitre shell | |
Clavilithes humerosus snail
Papillina dumosa Conrad 1854 snail | |
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Athleta symmetricus Conrad 1854 volute | |
Hexaplex (Hexaplex) katherinae Vokes 1968 murex snail
Pterynotus (Pterynotus) weisbordi Harris and Palmer 1947 mustached bat | |
"Conus tortilis" = Conus sauridens
"Conus tortilis" = Conus sauridens Conrad 1833 cone shell | |
Scobinella louisianae Harris 1937 turrid | |
Calyptraphorus stamineus snail | |
Platyoptera extenta Conrad 1854 true conch | |
Xenophora reclusa carrier shell | |
Bivalvia | |
"Corbula (Caryocorbula) willistoni" = Caryocorbula willistoni
"Corbula (Caryocorbula) willistoni" = Caryocorbula willistoni Meyer 1885 clam | |