Where: Sabine County, Louisiana (31.5° N, 93.6° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 37.1° N, 66.6° W (Wright 2013)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Marthaville Formation (Wilcox Group), Thanetian (59.2 - 56.0 Ma)
• EOCENE (PALEOCENE, LATE)* LIGNITIC (LIGNITIC = LOWER WILCOX Gr)* - Marthaville Fm.
•NOTE: should this be Marthaville or Greggs?? Recheck.
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: mesofossils
Collection methods: Claiborne sand. J.H. Aldrich, Collector.
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 92305: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Laurie Eccles on 05.11.2009
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Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
"Turris" sp. Röding 1798 turrid | |
"Latirus tortilis" = Pseudolatirus tortilis
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Turritella bellifera turret shell | |
Bivalvia | |
cf. Plagiocardium sp. Cossmann 1866 cockle | |
? Crassatella "sp. D" Lamarck 1799 clam |