Where: Sabine County, Louisiana (31.4° N, 93.7° W: paleocoordinates 32.4° N, 84.9° 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 92386: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Laurie Eccles on 09.11.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
"Phalium brevicostatum" = Cassis brevicostatus
"Phalium brevicostatum" = Cassis brevicostatus Conrad 1834 snail | |
Tropisurcula crenula, "Eodrillia texana" = Tropisurcula (Eodrillia)
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Glyptotoma crassiplicata Gabb 1860 cone shell | |
Lyrosurcula columbiana, Lyrosurcula dalli, "Coronia wateletella" = Gemmula (Coronia), Pleuroliria crenulosa, Eosurcula moorei, Eopleurotoma plumbella, Eopleurotoma sabinaria, Eopleurotoma carya
Lyrosurcula columbiana turrid
"Coronia wateletella" = Gemmula (Coronia) turrid
Eopleurotoma plumbella turrid
Eopleurotoma sabinaria turrid | |
Asthenotoma strigosa snail
Bathytoma nonplicata snail | |
Falsifusus bastropensis snail | |
Architectonica (Granosolarium) meekana, "Architectonica scrobiculata" = Patulaxis scrobiculata
Architectonica (Granosolarium) meekana Harris and Palmer 1947 sundial Architectonica (Granosolarium) meekana subsplendida [entered as Architectonic (Granosolarium) meekana]
"Architectonica scrobiculata" = Patulaxis scrobiculata Conrad 1833 snail Architectonica scrobiculata hicoria
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Bivalvia | |
Pitar (? Katherinella) "sp." Römer 1857 venus clam |