PRI 1122 (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Sabine County, Louisiana (31.5° N, 93.6° W: paleocoordinates 32.5° N, 84.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Moodys Branch Formation (Jackson Group), Bartonian (41.3 - 38.0 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: mesofossils

Collection methods: Collected by G. D. Harris October 1940.

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 91102: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Laurie Eccles on 04.09.2009

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Nuculida - Nuculidae
Nucula (Nucula) magnifica1 Conrad 1833 nut clam
Nucula (Nucula) magnifica yazooensis
 Pholadida - Corbulidae
 Ostreida - Pinnidae
Atrina jacksoniana2 Dall 1898 oyster