PRI 758 (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Cherokee County, Texas (31.8° N, 95.2° W: paleocoordinates 33.7° N, 84.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Weches Formation (Claiborne Group), Lutetian (47.8 - 41.3 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: mesofossils

Collection methods: Collected by A.C. Veatch for G.D. Harris collection.

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 90883: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Laurie Eccles on 22.08.2009, edited by Ursula Smith

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Epitonioidea - Epitoniidae
"Acrilloscala sp." = Amaea (Acrilloscala)
"Acrilloscala sp." = Amaea (Acrilloscala) Sacco 1890 wentletrap
 Neogastropoda - Buccinidae
Pseudoliva vetusta Conrad 1833 true whelk
 Sorbeoconcha - Rostellariidae
Calyptraphorus velatus Conrad 1833 snail
 Heterostropha - Architectonicidae
Bivalvia
 Cardiida - Sportellidae
 Cardiida - Tellinidae
Tellina cherokeensis Harris 1919 tellin clam