Cane River: Middle Eocene, Louisiana
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Lituolida
- Lituolidae
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Louisiana | County: | Natchitoches |
| Coordinates: | 31.8° North, 93.1° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 36.3° North, 74.4° West (Wright 2013) |
Time
| Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Eocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 2-3 | ||
| Key time interval: | Middle Eocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 48.07 - 37.71 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Claiborne | Formation: | Cane River | Member: | Upper Brown Clay |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | fine,glauconitic,brown lithified silty,sandy siltstone |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 164476 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | A. Saeed |
| Modifier: | M. Uhen | ||
| Created: | 2014-12-02 18:11:01 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2014-12-02 18:11:01 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 53686. | G. L. Stringer and S. Q. Breard. 1997. Comparison of Otolith-Based Paleoecology to other fossil group: An example from the Cane River Formation (Eocene) of Louisiana. 47:563-570 [M. Uhen/A. Saeed] |