Where: Vernon County, Louisiana (31.1° N, 93.3° W: paleocoordinates 32.1° N, 85.0° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Moodys Branch or Yazoo Formation (Jackson Group), Bartonian to Bartonian (41.3 - 33.9 Ma)
• This is from either Moodys Branch or Danville Landing mem.
• 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 92282: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Laurie Eccles on 04.11.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
"Turritella arenicola" = Kapalmerella arenicola
"Turritella arenicola" = Kapalmerella arenicola Conrad 1865 turret shell | |
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Hexaplex (Hexaplex) supernus Harris and Palmer 1947 murex snail | |
"Architectonica (Stellaxis) alveata" = Architectonica (Stellaxis) alveatum
"Architectonica (Stellaxis) alveata" = Architectonica (Stellaxis) alveatum Conrad 1833 sundial Architectonica (Stellaxis) alveata A
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