Where: Natchitoches County, Louisiana (31.7° N, 93.4° W: paleocoordinates 35.2° N, 76.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Marthaville Formation (Wilcox Group), Thanetian (59.2 - 56.0 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; unlithified, concretionary, ferruginous, glauconitic, calcareous siltstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: J. O. Barry and R. J. LeBlanc. 1942. Lower Eocene Faunal Units of Lousiana. Geological Bulletin of the state of Louisiana Dept. of Conservation (23)1-208 [J. Sessa/L. Eccles/L. Eccles]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 99725: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Laurie Eccles on 19.11.2010

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