Also known as LGS 65
Where: Sabine County, Texas (31.4° N, 93.8° W: paleocoordinates 34.3° N, 79.5° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Sabinetown Bluff Formation (Wilcox Group), Ypresian (56.0 - 47.8 Ma)
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; unlithified, fine-grained, glauconitic sandstone
Size classes: macrofossils, 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 91848: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Laurie Eccles on 21.10.2009, edited by Ursula Smith
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Nuculana ovula pointed nut clam | |
Anthozoa | |
Madracis gregorioi Vaughan 1900 stony coral |