Also known as LGS 58
Where: Natchitoches County, Louisiana (31.7° N, 93.4° W: paleocoordinates 35.2° N, 76.3° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Pendleton Ferry Formation (Wilcox Group), Thanetian (59.2 - 56.0 Ma)
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; unlithified, fine-grained, brown, red sandstone
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 98777: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Laurie Eccles on 20.10.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
"Buccinanops ellipticum" = Bullia (Buccinanops)
"Buccinanops ellipticum" = Bullia (Buccinanops) snail | |
Mazzalina plena snail | |
Cornulina minax Solander 1766 snail | |
Hemisurcula silicata turrid | |
"cf. Scaphella newcombiana" = Scaphella
"cf. Scaphella newcombiana" = Scaphella volute | |
Bivalvia | |
"Cardium (Cerastoderma) tuomeyi" = Acanthocardia (Schedocardia) tuomeyi
"Cardium (Cerastoderma) tuomeyi" = Acanthocardia (Schedocardia) tuomeyi Aldrich 1886 cockle Cardium (Cerastoderma) tuomeyi var.
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Tellina bellsiana tellin clam | |
Solen pendletonensis clam | |
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