Where: Lee County, Texas (30.4° N, 96.8° W: paleocoordinates 31.7° N, 88.2° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Yegua Formation (Claiborne Group), Bartonian (41.3 - 38.0 Ma)
• formation-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 92218: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Laurie Eccles on 03.11.2009, edited by Ursula Smith
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Solariella aldrichiana snail | |
Dolicholatirus singleyi snail | |
Coptostoma ulmulum Harris and Palmer 1947 snail | |
Microdrillia elongatula snail | |
Bivalvia | |
"Glycymeris sabinensis" = Tucetona sabinensis
"Glycymeris sabinensis" = Tucetona sabinensis Harris 1919 clam | |
Crassinella pteleina clam |