Also known as LNa-1a
Where: Natchitoches County, Louisiana (31.8° N, 93.1° W: paleocoordinates 33.5° N, 81.9° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: late zone, Weches Formation, Lutetian (47.8 - 41.3 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; unlithified, glauconitic marl
tiny fragile fossils
some minor pyrite
Size class: mesofossils
Preservation: cast, original aragonite, original calcite
Collection methods: bulk, mechanical, sieve,
Primary reference: L. C. Ivany. 1997. Faunal stability and environmental change in the middle Eocene Gulf Coastal Plain (PhD Thesis, Harvard University). 1-221 [L. Ivany/L. Ivany/A. Clement]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 2409: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Linda Ivany on 03.07.1999
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gymnolaemata | |
"Holoporella granulosa" = Celleporaria
"Holoporella granulosa" = Celleporaria | |
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Gastropoda | |
Ringicula trapaquara snail | |
Architectonica amoena sundial | |
"Coronia genitiva" = Gemmula (Coronia) genitiva, "Protosurcula gabbi" = Protosurcula gabbii
"Coronia genitiva" = Gemmula (Coronia) genitiva Casey 1904 turrid
"Protosurcula gabbi" = Protosurcula gabbii Conrad 1865 turrid | |
Agaronia sp. Gray 1839 snail | |
Levifusus mortoniopsis snail | |
Naticidae indet. Guilding 1834 moon snail | |
Retusa galba snail | |
Scaphopoda | |
Cadulus sp. Philippi 1844 tusk shell | |
Anthozoa | |
Turbinolia pharetra Lea 1833 stony coral |