Also known as LGS 38
Where: Sabine County, Louisiana (31.5° N, 93.6° W: paleocoordinates 35.0° N, 76.6° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Marthaville Formation (Wilcox Group), Thanetian (59.2 - 56.0 Ma)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Preservation: mold/impression
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 92281: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Laurie Eccles on 04.11.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Brachidontes stubbsi mussel | |
"Ostrea thirsae" = Odontogryphaea thirsae, Ostrea (Ostrea) multilirata
"Ostrea thirsae" = Odontogryphaea thirsae Gabb 1862 oyster
Ostrea (Ostrea) multilirata oyster |