Where: Cherokee County, Texas (32.1° N, 95.3° W: paleocoordinates 34.0° N, 84.1° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Viesca Member (Weches Formation), Lutetian (47.8 - 41.3 Ma)
• Middle Eocene,; Viesca Member,; Weches Fm.,; middle Claiborne Group (LCI JAS)
• formation-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 98807: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Ursula Smith on 21.10.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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