MGS 96 (Paleocene of the United States)

Also known as LGS 27

Where: Natchitoches County, Louisiana (31.8° N, 93.1° W: paleocoordinates 35.2° N, 76.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Marthaville Formation (Wilcox Group), Thanetian (59.2 - 56.0 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: D. T. Dockery. 1980. Invertebrate Macropaleontolgy of the Clarke County Mississippi Area. Bulletin - Mississippi Geological, Economic and Topographic Survey 122 [M. Kosnik/M. Kosnik/L. Eccles]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 101124: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Laurie Eccles on 17.12.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Neogastropoda - Buccinidae
Bivalvia
 Cardiida - Veneridae
Pitaria (Pitaria) nuttelliopsis venus clam
including Pitar (Pitar) nuttalliopsis greggi
 Cardiida - Tellinidae
Tellina ? sp. Linnaeus 1758 tellin clam