Where: Lee County, Texas (30.4° N, 96.8° W: paleocoordinates 31.7° N, 88.2° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Cook Mountain Formation (Claiborne Group), Bartonian (41.3 - 38.0 Ma)
• 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 98886: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Ursula Smith on 22.10.2010, edited by Laurie Eccles
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Eucheilodon reticulata turrid | |
"Eodrillia texana" = Tropisurcula (Eodrillia)
"Eodrillia texana" = Tropisurcula (Eodrillia) snail | |
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Bivalvia | |
Nucula (Nucula) mauricensis Harris 1919 nut clam |