Where: Bienville County, Louisiana (32.4° N, 93.0° W: paleocoordinates 33.4° N, 84.1° 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 92273: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Laurie Eccles on 04.11.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Sulcocypraea vaughani Johnson 1899 snail | |
"Ectinochilus texanum" = Rimella
"Ectinochilus texanum" = Rimella true conch | |
Bullata semen Lea 1833 volute | |
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"Distorsio (Personella) septemdentata" = Sassia (Personella) septemdentata
"Distorsio (Personella) septemdentata" = Sassia (Personella) septemdentata Gabb 1860 triton shell | |
"Turritella pleboides" = Kapalmerella pleboides
"Turritella pleboides" = Kapalmerella pleboides Vaughan 1895 turret shell | |
Bivalvia | |
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