PRI 2223 (Eocene of the United States)

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

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Cardiida - Ungulinidae
"Timothynus anterproductus" = Diplodonta (Timothynus)
"Timothynus anterproductus" = Diplodonta (Timothynus) clam
 Carditida - Carditidae
Venericardia natchitoches Harris 1919 clam
 Pectinida - Anomiidae
Anomia lisbonensis Aldrich 1886 jingle
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
Cubitostrea lisbonensis Harris 1919 oyster
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
"Pycnodonta ludoviciana" = Pycnodonte
"Pycnodonta ludoviciana" = Pycnodonte oyster