Lover's Leap (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Cross County, Arkansas (35.2° N, 90.7° W: paleocoordinates 35.9° N, 82.6° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Jackson Group, Priabonian (38.0 - 33.9 Ma)

• late Eocene

Environment/lithology: marine; sandy mudstone

• mudstones and sandy mudstones

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original phosphate

Primary reference: J. W. Westgate. 2001. Paleoecology and biostratigraphy of marginal marine gulf coast Eocene vertebrate localities. Eocene Biodiversity: Unusual Occurrences and Rarely Sampled Habitats 263-297 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 45641: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 20.11.2004

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Pholadida - Teredinidae
Teredo sp. Linnaeus 1758 clam
Reptilia
 Squamata - Palaeophiidae
Pterosphenus schucherti Lucas 1898 snake
Chondrichthyes
 Carcharhiniformes - Scyliorhinidae
Abdounia enniskilleni White 1956 cat shark
 Carcharhiniformes - Carcharhinidae
"? Negaprion gibbesi" = Carcharhinus gibbesii
"? Negaprion gibbesi" = Carcharhinus gibbesii Woodward 1889 requiem shark
 Lamniformes - Carchariidae
Carcharias hopei Agassiz 1843 sand shark