Where: Sabine County, Louisiana (31.5° N, 93.5° W: paleocoordinates 32.5° N, 84.7° 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
Collection methods: Collected by A.A. Olsson.
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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 92348: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Laurie Eccles on 08.11.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Polinices aratus moon snail | |
Conomitra texana ribbed mitre | |
Pseudoliva vetusta Conrad 1833 true whelk | |
"Bullata semenoides" = Closia (Bullata), Caricella stenzeli
"Bullata semenoides" = Closia (Bullata) volute
Caricella stenzeli volute | |
Balcis "spp. A" Leach 1847 snail | |
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Pyramidella perexilis snail |