Where: Natchitoches County, Louisiana (31.8° N, 93.1° W: paleocoordinates 32.8° N, 84.2° 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
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 92372: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Laurie Eccles on 09.11.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
"Timothynus anterproductus" = Diplodonta (Timothynus)
"Timothynus anterproductus" = Diplodonta (Timothynus) clam | |
Venericardia natchitoches Harris 1919 clam | |
Anomia lisbonensis Aldrich 1886 jingle | |
Cubitostrea lisbonensis Harris 1919 oyster | |
"Pycnodonta ludoviciana" = Pycnodonte
"Pycnodonta ludoviciana" = Pycnodonte oyster |