LGS 2 formerly Locality #2 - Logansport Formation (Paleocene to of the United States)

Also known as M 87

Where: Sabine County, Louisiana (31.6° N, 93.6° W: paleocoordinates 35.5° N, 75.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Logansport Formation (Midway Group), Danian to Danian (66.0 - 56.0 Ma)

• JAS has updated the age of this collection. "Logansport" was noted as a preoccupied name by Palmer and Brann (1965), who instead used the name "Halls Summit". Some confusion about the age of collections from this reference. While text states them to be Eocene, the Wilcox Group is in fact late Paleocene. No finer lithostratigraphic designation is stated in text, but Toulmin (1977) reports many of LeBlanc's taxa as belonging to the Logansport Formation of Sabine Parish, Louisiana. Logansport Formation lies betweent the Naborton and Hall Summit Formations, all of Thanetian age, and underlies further the Ypresian (Earliest Eocene) Marthaville, Pendleton and Sabinetown Formations.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, concretionary, gray, calcareous claystone

• No paleoenvironmental data stated. Appears to be a shallow shelfal environment. Enterer has designated it as "offshore siliciclastic".
• Calcareous concretions in grey calcareous clays.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: concretion

Collection methods: Collected by LaBlanc and Barry (1939).

Primary reference: R. J. LeBlanc and J.O. Barry. 1941. Fossiliferous localities of Midway Group in Louisiana. Bulletin of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists 25(4):734-738 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 52191: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 30.07.2005, edited by Laurie Eccles

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Taxonomic list

• Antiquated nomenclature. Reviewed by LaBlanc (1942), and some names are validated by Toulmin (1977).
Gastropoda
 Epitonioidea - Epitoniidae
Epitonium sp.1 Bolten 1798 wentletrap
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
Turritella aldrichi turret shell
 Sorbeoconcha - Rostellariidae
 Neogastropoda - Melongenidae
"Levifusus pagoda" = Levifusus pagodiformis
"Levifusus pagoda" = Levifusus pagodiformis Heilprin 1881 snail
 Neogastropoda - Costellariidae
Orthosurcula persa ribbed mitre
including O. persa n. var. pleasanthillensis
 Neogastropoda - Volutidae
Athleta petrosa Conrad 1833 volute
 Sorbeoconcha - Naticidae
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Pinnidae
 Lucinida - Lucinidae
Lucina "sp. C"2 Bruguière 1797 clam
Lucina ? sp.1 Bruguière 1797 clam
 Pholadida - Pholadidae
Martesia sp. Sowerby 1824 clam
 Pholadida - Corbulidae
Corbula sp. Bruguière 1789 clam
Corbula (Caryocorbula) sp.1 Gardner 1926 clam
 Cardiida - Tellinidae
 Carditida - Carditidae
 Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
"Nuculana fiski n. sp." = Nuculana1, "Leda sp." = Nuculana, "Yoldia (cf. Orthoyoldia) kindlei" = Orthoyoldia2
"Nuculana fiski n. sp." = Nuculana1 pointed nut clam
"Leda sp." = Nuculana Link 1807 pointed nut clam
"Yoldia (cf. Orthoyoldia) kindlei" = Orthoyoldia2 pointed nut clam
 Nuculanida - Yoldiidae