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 | |
"Acrilloscala sp." = Amaea (Acrilloscala)
"Acrilloscala sp." = Amaea (Acrilloscala) Sacco 1890 wentletrap | |
Pseudoliva vetusta Conrad 1833 true whelk | |
Calyptraphorus velatus Conrad 1833 snail | |
Architectonica (Solariaxis) elaborata Conrad 1833 sundial | |
Bivalvia | |
Tellina cherokeensis Harris 1919 tellin clam |