Also known as LGS 37

Where: Sabine County, Louisiana (31.6° N, 93.4° W: paleocoordinates 34.8° N, 77.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Marthaville Formation (Wilcox Group), Selandian to Selandian (61.6 - 47.8 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; unlithified, gray, blue, silty claystone

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 98909: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Laurie Eccles on 22.10.2010

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