Where: Catahoula County, Louisiana (31.6° N, 91.8° W: paleocoordinates 32.3° N, 84.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Danville Landing Member (Yazoo Formation), Priabonian (38.0 - 33.9 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; lithified, concretionary, gypsiferous, shelly/skeletal, yellow, blue, argillaceous, calcareous mudstone

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 98687: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Laurie Eccles on 19.10.2010

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