M 262 (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Sabine County, Texas (31.4° N, 93.8° W: paleocoordinates 32.5° N, 85.0° 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 99035: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Ursula Smith on 25.10.2010, edited by Laurie Eccles

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
? Litorhadia bastropensis Harris 1895 pointed nut clam
 Arcida - Arcidae
"Barbatia (Plagiarca) vaughani" = Plagiarca clam
Barbatia (Plagiarca) rhomboidella Lea 1833 clam
Barbatia (Plagiarca) rhomboidella parsaba
Pachecoa (Pachecoa) decisa2 Conrad 1833 clam
 Pholadida - Corbulidae