M 267 (Eocene of the United States)

Also known as LGS 65

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; unlithified, fine-grained, glauconitic sandstone

• Fossils obtained from well depth of 35 feet in very glauconitic fine sand (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 91848: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Laurie Eccles on 21.10.2009, edited by Ursula Smith

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Litorhadia aldrichiana pointed nut clam
Litorhadia aldrichiana sabinetownesis
Nuculana ovula pointed nut clam
Nuculana aldrichiana pointed nut clam
Nuculana aldrichiana sabinetownensis n. var.
 Pholadida - Corbulidae
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Astrocoeniidae
Madracis gregorioi Vaughan 1900 stony coral