PRI 747 (Eocene to of the United States)

Where: Ouachita County, Louisiana (32.5° N, 92.1° W: paleocoordinates 33.8° N, 81.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Claiborne Group, Lutetian to Lutetian (47.8 - 38.0 Ma)

• Could be Weches or Cook Mountain formation.

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: mesofossils

Collection methods: A.C. Veatch

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 90470: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Laurie Eccles on 29.07.2009

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Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Naticidae
Polinices aratus moon snail
Neverita "spp. B" Risso 1826 moon snail
 Neogastropoda - Marginellidae
 Sorbeoconcha - Ranellidae
"Distorsio (Personella) septemdentata" = Sassia (Personella) septemdentata
"Distorsio (Personella) septemdentata" = Sassia (Personella) septemdentata Gabb 1860 triton shell
Bivalvia
 Nuculanida - Polidevciidae
"Nuculana magna" = Polidevcia magna
"Nuculana magna" = Polidevcia magna Lea 1833 clam
Nuculana magna lisbonensis
 Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Yoldia (Calorhadia) compsa Gabb 1860 pointed nut clam
 Arcida - Arcidae
Pachecoa (Pachecoa) pulchra clam
Pachecoa (Pachecoa) pulchra variations