Where: Montgomery County, Louisiana (31.8° N, 92.5° W: paleocoordinates 32.8° N, 83.6° 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
Collection methods: Collected by ,G.D. Harris October 1940.
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 98855: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Laurie Eccles on 21.10.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
"Architectonica (Solariaxis) acuta" = Architectonica acuta
"Architectonica (Solariaxis) acuta" = Architectonica acuta Conrad 1854 sundial | |
Polinices weisbordi moon snail | |
Tritonatractus pearlensis Aldrich 1885 snail Tritonoatractus pearlensis montgomeriensis [entered as Tritonoatractus pearlensis]
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Agaronia mississippiensis Conrad 1848 snail | |
Pterynotus (Pterynotus) weisbordi Harris and Palmer 1947 mustached bat | |
Sulcocypraea healeyi Aldrich 1923 snail | |
Serpulorbis chavani Harris and Palmer 1947 worm shell | |
Bivalvia | |
? Plicatula louisiana scallop |