M 266 (Eocene of the United States)

Also known as LGS 62

Where: Sabine County, Texas (31.4° N, 93.8° W: paleocoordinates 34.3° N, 79.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Sabinetown Bluff Formation (Wilcox Group), Ypresian (56.0 - 47.8 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, concretionary siltstone

• Fossils found in glauconitic siltstone concretions (Barry & LeBlanc 1942).

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: K. V. Palmer and D. C. Brann. 1965. Catalogue of the Paleocene and Eocene mollusca of the southern and eastern United States. Part 1. Pelecypoda, Amphineura, Peteropoda, Scaphopoda and Cephalopoda. Bulletins of American Paleontology 48:1-471 [M. Kosnik/M. Kosnik/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 91847: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Laurie Eccles on 21.10.2009, edited by Ursula Smith

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Taxonomic list

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Bivalvia
 Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Litorhadia aldrichiana, Nuculana aldrichiana
Litorhadia aldrichiana pointed nut clam
Litorhadia aldrichiana sabinetownesis
Nuculana aldrichiana pointed nut clam
Nuculana aldrichiana sabinetownensis n. var.
 Carditida - Carditidae
Venericardia (Venericor) bashiplata
Venericardia (Venericor) bashiplata Gardner and Bowles 1939 clam