M 474 (Paleocene of the United States)

Also known as LGS 48

Where: Sabine County, Louisiana (31.6° N, 93.4° W: paleocoordinates 35.1° 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)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

• Fossils collected from calcareous silty boulders on surface (Barry & LeBlanc 1942).

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 98910: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Laurie Eccles on 22.10.2010

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Taxonomic list

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Gastropoda
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
"Turritella mortoni" = Kapalmerella mortoni
"Turritella mortoni" = Kapalmerella mortoni Conrad 1830 turret shell
Turritella mortoni postmortoni
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostrea cf. compressirostra
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
Brachidontes alabamensis
Brachidontes alabamensis Aldrich 1895 mussel
 Carditida - Carditidae
Venericardia (Venericor) densata
Venericardia (Venericor) densata Conrad 1845 clam
Venericardia (Venericor) densata pendletonensis
 Cardiida - Veneridae
"Callista (? Macrocallista) sp." = Macrocallista
"Callista (? Macrocallista) sp." = Macrocallista Meek 1876 venus clam