LGS 60 (Paleocene of the United States)

Where: Natchitoches County, Louisiana (31.7° N, 93.2° W: paleocoordinates 35.2° N, 76.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; unlithified, fine-grained, brown, red sandstone

• Collected from limonitic brown or red fine sand.

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Primary reference: J. O. Barry and R. J. LeBlanc. 1942. Lower Eocene Faunal Units of Lousiana. Geological Bulletin of the state of Louisiana Dept. of Conservation (23)1-208 [J. Sessa/L. Eccles/L. Eccles]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 105209: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Laurie Eccles on 17.02.2011

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Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Neogastropoda - Turridae
Bivalvia
 Carditida - Carditidae
Venericardia (Venericor) densata Conrad 1845 clam
Venericardia (Venericor) densata pendletonensis