Also known as LGS 11
Where: De Soto County, Louisiana (31.9° N, 93.9° W: paleocoordinates 36.1° N, 74.4° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Logansport Formation (Midway Group), Danian to Danian (66.0 - 59.2 Ma)
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; unlithified, green claystone
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 92158: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Laurie Eccles on 02.11.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Corbula "sp. I" Bruguière 1789 clam | |
Anomia rufa jingle |