Where: Burleson County, Texas (30.9° N, 96.4° W: paleocoordinates 32.2° N, 87.7° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Cook Mountain Formation (Claiborne Group), Bartonian (41.3 - 38.0 Ma)
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: mesofossils
Collection methods: Collected by J. Wells 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 90885: 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 | |
Mesalia claibornensis turret shell | |
Polinices aratus moon snail
Neverita spp. Risso 1826 moon snail | |
"Distorsio (Personella) septemdentata" = Sassia (Personella) septemdentata
"Distorsio (Personella) septemdentata" = Sassia (Personella) septemdentata Gabb 1860 triton shell | |
Falsifusus bastropensis snail | |
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Bullia tenera snail | |
"Conus (Lithoconus) sauridens" = Conus sauridens
"Conus (Lithoconus) sauridens" = Conus sauridens Conrad 1833 cone shell | |
Michela trabeatoides Harris 1895 turrid | |
Architectonica (Granosolarium) ornata, "Architectonica scrobiculata" = Patulaxis scrobiculata
Architectonica (Granosolarium) ornata Harris and Palmer 1947 sundial
"Architectonica scrobiculata" = Patulaxis scrobiculata Conrad 1833 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
"Yoldia (Orthoyoldia) psammotaea" = Orthoyoldia psammotaea
"Yoldia (Orthoyoldia) psammotaea" = Orthoyoldia psammotaea Dall 1898 pointed nut clam | |
Notocorbula texana Gabb 1860 clam |