M 383 (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Cherokee County, Texas (32.0° N, 95.3° W: paleocoordinates 33.2° N, 86.4° 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 92208: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Laurie Eccles on 03.11.2009, edited by Ursula Smith

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Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Neogastropoda - Fasciolariidae
Bivalvia
 Arcida - Arcidae
Pachecoa (Pachecoa) pulchra clam
Pachecoa (Pachecoa) pulchra variations
 Pholadida - Corbulidae
Notocorbula texana Gabb 1860 clam
 Carditida - Crassatellidae
"Crassatella texana" = Crassatellites texana
"Crassatella texana" = Crassatellites texana Harris 1895 clam