PRI 776 (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Bastrop County, Texas (30.0° N, 97.1° W: paleocoordinates 32.1° N, 86.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

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 90888: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Laurie Eccles on 22.08.2009, edited by Ursula Smith

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Arcida - Arcidae
 Cardiida - Veneridae
Pitar juliae venus clam
Rhabdopitaria pricei Price and Palmer 1928 venus clam
 Nuculida - Nuculidae
Nucula (Nucula) mauricensis Harris 1919 nut clam
Gastropoda
 Heterostropha - Architectonicidae
"Architectonica (Stellaxis) alveata" = Architectonica (Stellaxis) alveatum
"Architectonica (Stellaxis) alveata" = Architectonica (Stellaxis) alveatum Conrad 1833 sundial
subspecies Architectonica (Stellaxis) alveata B
 Cerithioidea - Cerithiidae
 Neogastropoda - Buccinidae
Lacinia alveata Conrad 1833 true whelk
 Neogastropoda - Nassariidae
Bullia altilis Conrad 1832 snail
subspecies "Bullia altilis harrisi"