Montgomery (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Grant County, Louisiana (31.7° N, 92.9° W: paleocoordinates 32.4° N, 85.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: T. W. Vaughan. 1900. The Eocene and lower Oligocene coral faunas of the United States with descriptions of a few doubtfully Cretaceous species. United States Geological Survey, Monograph 39:1-263 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 88144: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 02.04.2009

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Rhizangiidae
Astrangia ludoviciana n. sp. Vaughan 1900 stony coral
Astrangia expansa Vaughan 1900 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Caryophylliidae
Caryophyllia dalli n. sp., Parasmilia ludoviciana n. sp., "Aldrichia elegans n. gen. n. sp." = Platytrochus elegans
Caryophyllia dalli n. sp. Vaughan 1900 stony coral
Parasmilia ludoviciana n. sp. Vaughan 1900 stony coral
"Aldrichia elegans n. gen. n. sp." = Platytrochus elegans Vaughan 1900 stony coral