PRI 74 (Paleocene of the United States)

Where: Sabine County, Texas (31.3° N, 93.8° W: paleocoordinates 34.8° N, 76.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Pendleton Ferry Formation (Wilcox Group), Thanetian (59.2 - 56.0 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: mesofossils

Collection methods: See location 61. Cornell University Station. Annotations by E. Manning of LA. State Univ. Museum of Geoscienc, April 1988.

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 92307: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Laurie Eccles on 05.11.2009, edited by Ursula Smith

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Heterostropha - Architectonicidae
 Neogastropoda - Raphitomidae
 Neogastropoda - Cancellariidae
 Neogastropoda - Buccinidae
 Sorbeoconcha - Naticidae
Bivalvia
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
cf. Plagiocardium sp. Cossmann 1866 cockle
 Cardiida - Veneridae
Pitar (Pitar) nuttalliopsis venus clam
Pitar (Pitar) nuttalliopsis greggi