Where: Louisiana (31.5° N, 93.5° W: paleocoordinates 35.0° N, 76.5° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Pendleton Formation (Wilcox Group), Thanetian (59.2 - 56.0 Ma)
Environment/lithology: lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: L. N. Glawe, J. F. Anderson, and D. E. Bell. 2014. Late Paleocene examples of residual coloration and embryonic features in juvenile marine mollusks from Northwest Louisiana. Palaeontologia Electronica 17(2) [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 173476: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 29.09.2015
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Gastropoda | |
Solariella sp. Wood 1842 snail | |
Turbonilla sp. Risso 1826 snail | |
Ringicula butleriana snail | |
Cerithiella sp. Verrill 1882 snail | |
Natica aperta moon snail | |
Adeorbis cf. sylvaerupis snail | |
Teinostoma barryi snail | |
Buccitriton sagenum Conrad 1833 true whelk
Dorsanum scalatum Heilprin 1891 true whelk | |
Turritella sp. Lamarck 1799 turret shell | |
Melanella wheeleri snail | |
Epitonium cf. multiliniferum wentletrap | |
Atys cf. robustoides snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Nuculana corpulentoidea pointed nut clam
Calorhadia aldrichiana pointed nut clam | |
"Nucula ovula" = Nucula (Nucula) ovula
"Nucula ovula" = Nucula (Nucula) ovula Lea 1833 nut clam | |
Venericardia sp. Lamarck 1801 clam | |
Macrocallista sp. Meek 1876 venus clam | |
Tellina cf. bellsiana tellin clam | |
Corbula sp. Bruguière 1789 clam
Corbula cappa clam | |
Scaphopoda | |
Dentalium microstria Heilprin 1880 tusk shell | |
Cadulus abruptus tusk shell |