PRI 2285 (Eocene of the United States)

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
 Cardiida - Veneridae
Pitar (Katherinella) smithvillensis Stenzel et al. 1957 venus clam
 Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
 Carditida - Crassatellidae
Gastropoda
 Heterostropha - Pyramidellidae
 Neogastropoda - Turridae
 Neogastropoda - Fasciolariidae