M 410 (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Sabine County, Texas (31.4° N, 93.7° W: paleocoordinates 32.5° N, 84.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Moodys Branch Formation (Jackson 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 92243: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Laurie Eccles on 04.11.2009, edited by Ursula Smith

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Capulidae
Capulus americanus Conrad 1854 snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Naticidae
Euspira jacksonensis Harris and Palmer 1947 moon snail
 Neogastropoda - Buccinidae
Pseudoliva vetusta Conrad 1833 true whelk
Pseudoliva vetusta perspectiva
 Neogastropoda - Turbinellidae
"Latirus humilior" = Turbinella humilior
"Latirus humilior" = Turbinella humilior Meyer 1885 snail
Latirus humilior urbanus
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
"Turritella arenicola" = Kapalmerella arenicola
"Turritella arenicola" = Kapalmerella arenicola Conrad 1865 turret shell