M 604 (Eocene of the United States)

Also known as LGS 63

Where: Sabine County, Texas (31.4° N, 93.7° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 36.4° N, 70.4° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Sabinetown Bluff Formation (Wilcox Group), Ypresian (56.0 - 47.8 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

• Fossils collected from red and green badly weathered glauconite (Barry & LeBlanc 1942).

Size classes: macrofossils, 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 99041: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Ursula Smith on 25.10.2010, edited by Laurie Eccles

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Carditida - Carditidae
Venericardia (Venericor) bashiplata Gardner and Bowles 1939 clam
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
"Pycnodonta sylvaerupis" = Pycnodonte
"Pycnodonta sylvaerupis" = Pycnodonte oyster