PRI 886 (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Catahoula County, Louisiana (31.6° N, 91.8° W: paleocoordinates 32.6° N, 83.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Moodys Branch Formation (Jackson 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 98688: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Laurie Eccles on 19.10.2010

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Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Naticidae
Natica permunda Conrad 1854 moon snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Rostellariidae
 Neogastropoda - Buccinidae
Pseudoliva vetusta Conrad 1833 true whelk
perspectiva
 Neogastropoda - Fasciolariidae
Tritonatractus pearlensis Aldrich 1885 snail
[entered as Tritonoatractus pearlensis]
 Neogastropoda - Volutidae
Athleta symmetricus Conrad 1854 volute
Bivalvia
 Cardiida - Ungulinidae
Timothynus bulla Conrad 1865 clam
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
 Nuculanida - Nuculanidae