Where: Houston County, Texas (31.3° N, 95.5° W: paleocoordinates 32.5° N, 86.7° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Landrum Member (Cook Mountain Formation), Bartonian (41.3 - 38.0 Ma)
• MIDDLE EOCENE; UPPER CLAIBORNE Gr; COOK MOUNTAIN Fm, Landrum Mem., Hurricane Lentil
• 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 92385: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Laurie Eccles on 09.11.2009, edited by Ursula Smith
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Pitar (Katherinella) smithvillensis Stenzel et al. 1957 venus clam | |
Pholadomya harrisi clam | |
Crassatella antestriata Gabb 1860 clam | |
Gastropoda | |
Odostomia trapaquara snail | |
Latirus sexcostatus snail
Dolicholatirus obtusus snail |