Where: Bienville County, Louisiana (32.4° N, 93.0° W: paleocoordinates 33.4° N, 84.1° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Cook Mountain Formation (Claiborne Group), Bartonian (41.3 - 38.0 Ma)
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: 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 92272: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Laurie Eccles on 04.11.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Infracoronia ludoviciana Harris and Palmer 1947 turrid | |
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Bivalvia | |
Pteropsella lapidosa Conrad 1846 clam | |
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Nemocardium gambrinum cockle | |
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Anomia lisbonensis Aldrich 1886 jingle | |
Barbatia (Plagiarca) rhomboidella Lea 1833 clam | |
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Yoldia (Calorhadia) bella pointed nut clam |