Also known as LGS 49
Where: Sabine County, Louisiana (31.4° N, 93.6° W: paleocoordinates 34.9° N, 76.6° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Pendleton Ferry Formation (Wilcox Group), Thanetian (59.2 - 56.0 Ma)
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; unlithified, fine-grained, glauconitic, gray, blue sandstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collection methods: Cornell University station.
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 98929: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Laurie Eccles on 22.10.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
"Arca (Barbatia) cuculloides" = Barbatia (Cucullaearca) cuculloides
"Arca (Barbatia) cuculloides" = Barbatia (Cucullaearca) cuculloides Conrad 1833 clam | |
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"Cardium (Cerastoderma) tuomeyi" = Acanthocardia (Schedocardia) tuomeyi
"Cardium (Cerastoderma) tuomeyi" = Acanthocardia (Schedocardia) tuomeyi Aldrich 1886 cockle Cardium (Cerastoderma) tuomeyi var.
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Gastropoda | |
Ampullina alabamiensis snail | |
"Pleurotoma terebralis" = Ancistrosyrinx terebralis
"Pleurotoma terebralis" = Ancistrosyrinx terebralis Lamarck 1804 snail | |
"Pleurotoma siphus" = Turris
"Pleurotoma siphus" = Turris turrid | |
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Fusitoma sipha snail | |
Turritella bellifera turret shell |