Where: Webster County, Louisiana (32.6° N, 93.3° W: paleocoordinates 33.7° N, 84.4° 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
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 91888: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Laurie Eccles on 22.10.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Turritella nasuta turret shell |