PRI 1120 (Eocene to of the United States)

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

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Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
"Turritella arenicola" = Kapalmerella arenicola
"Turritella arenicola" = Kapalmerella arenicola Conrad 1865 turret shell
 Neogastropoda - Buccinidae
Pseudoliva vetusta Conrad 1833 true whelk
Pseudoliva vetusta perspectiva
 Neogastropoda - Muricidae
Hexaplex (Hexaplex) supernus Harris and Palmer 1947 murex snail
 Heterostropha - Architectonicidae
"Architectonica (Stellaxis) alveata" = Architectonica (Stellaxis) alveatum
"Architectonica (Stellaxis) alveata" = Architectonica (Stellaxis) alveatum Conrad 1833 sundial
Architectonica (Stellaxis) alveata A