M 94 (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: marine; lithology not reported

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 98953: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Laurie Eccles on 24.10.2010

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Plicatulidae
Plicatula filamentosa Conrad 1833 scallop
Plicatula filamentosa planata
 Carditida - Crassatellidae
Bathytormus clarkensis Dall 1900 clam