Where: Leon County, Texas (31.3° N, 96.0° W: paleocoordinates 32.5° N, 87.2° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Mount Tabor Member (Cook Mountain Formation), 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 98898: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Ursula Smith on 22.10.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Mauricia leonia mussel |