M 537 (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Brazos County, Texas (30.6° N, 96.5° W: paleocoordinates 31.9° N, 87.8° W)

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Wheelock Member (Cook Mountain Formation), Bartonian (41.3 - 38.0 Ma)

• member-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 99253: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Ursula Smith on 03.11.2010

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Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Vitrinellidae
Cyclostremiscus exacuus snail
[entered as Cyclostremiscus exacus]
 Neogastropoda - Melongenidae
Levifusus "spp." Conrad 1865 snail