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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Natica permunda Conrad 1854 moon snail
Polinices weisbordi moon snail | |
Calyptraphorus stamineus snail | |
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Athleta symmetricus Conrad 1854 volute | |
Bivalvia | |
Timothynus bulla Conrad 1865 clam | |
Yoldia (Calorhadia) reginajacksonis pointed nut clam |