PRI 3 (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Winn County, Louisiana (31.9° N, 92.6° W: paleocoordinates 32.9° N, 83.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Cook Mountain Formation (Claiborne Group), Bartonian (41.3 - 38.0 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithology not reported

• Environment from PBDB col 81210.

Size class: mesofossils

Collection methods: Collected by Leslies Hubricht, March 27, 1966. Donated April 26, 1966.

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 98943: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Laurie Eccles on 24.10.2010

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Nuculana wautubbeana, "Yoldia (Orthoyoldia) psammotaea" = Orthoyoldia psammotaea
Nuculana wautubbeana pointed nut clam
"Yoldia (Orthoyoldia) psammotaea" = Orthoyoldia psammotaea Dall 1898 pointed nut clam
 Arcida - Limopsidae
Limopsis aviculoides Conrad 1862 clam
Limopsis aviculoides "var."