M 66 (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Ouachita County, Louisiana (32.5° N, 92.1° W: paleocoordinates 33.5° N, 83.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Moodys Branch Formation (Jackson Group), Bartonian (41.3 - 38.0 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: mesofossils

Collection methods: A.C. Veatch

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 98789: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Laurie Eccles on 20.10.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
Gastropoda
 Neogastropoda - Cochlespiridae
Cochlespira bella Harris 1937 snail
Cochlespira bella polita