Bunker Hill (H-79-10-6) (Eocene to of the United States)

Also known as H-79-10

Where: Caldwell County, Louisiana (32.0° N, 92.0° W: paleocoordinates 33.1° N, 82.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Moodys Branch Formation, Lutetian to Lutetian (47.8 - 33.9 Ma)

• "Late Lutetian - Early Priabonian" (T. Hansen, pers. comm.)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; unlithified, burrowed, glauconitic, silty claystone

• "very poor preservation. sediment very clayey, fossils chalky - impossible to wash out. abundant black glauconite pellets. forams most abundant fossil."

Collection methods: bulk, mechanical, sieve,

Primary reference: S. R. Elder. 1981. Fossil assemblages of a marine transgressive sand, Moody''s Branch Formation (Upper Eocene), Louisiana and Mississippi. Unpublished M.A. Thesis, University of Texas at Austin 1-140 [T. Hansen/M. Sommers/A. Clement]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 1421: authorized by Thor Hansen, entered by Mike Sommers on 13.04.1999

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Foraminifera
 Nummulitacea - Nummulitidae
Heterostegina sp. d'Orbigny 1826
originally entered as "Heterostigina sp."
Anthozoa
  -
Anthozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1834
misc. coral
Scaphopoda
  -
Scaphopoda indet. Bronn 1862 tusk shell
Bivalvia
 Lucinida - Lucinidae
Lucina sp. Bruguière 1797 clam
 Cardiida - Tellinidae
Tellinidae indet. Blainville 1814 tellin clam
Tellinids
 Cardiida - Kelliellidae
Alveinus minutus Conrad 1865 clam
 Pholadida - Corbulidae
Corbula sp. Bruguière 1789 clam
 Carditida - Carditidae
? Venericardia sp. Lamarck 1801 clam
originally entered as "? Venericardia sp."
 Arcida - Limopsidae
Limopsis radiata Meyer 1885 clam
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Eburneopecten scintillatus Conrad 1854 scallop
Chlamys nupera Conrad 1854 scallop
 Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Nuculana sp. Link 1807 pointed nut clam
 Nuculida - Nuculidae
Nucula sp. Lamarck 1799 nut clam