Duty Landing (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Catahoula County, Louisiana (31.9° N, 91.9° W: paleocoordinates 33.5° N, 80.7° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Danville Landing Formation, Eocene (56.0 - 33.9 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; shale

Primary reference: D. L. Frizzell and C. K. Lamber. 1962. Distinctive "congrid type" fish otoliths from the lower Tertiary of the Gulf Coast (Pisces: Anguilliformes). Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 32(5):87-101 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 84176: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 19.09.2008

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Taxonomic list

Actinopteri
 Anguilliformes - Congridae
Conger fornicatus Frizzell and Lamber 1962 conger eel