M 475 (Eocene of the United States)

Also known as LGS 64

Where: Sabine County, Louisiana (31.6° N, 93.4° W: paleocoordinates 34.4° N, 79.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Sabinetown Bluff Formation (Wilcox Group), Ypresian (56.0 - 47.8 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

• Fossils collected from red and green badly weathered glauconite (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 98911: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Laurie Eccles on 22.10.2010

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Taxonomic list

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Bivalvia
 Carditida - Carditidae
Venericardia (Venericor) bashiplata
Venericardia (Venericor) bashiplata Gardner and Bowles 1939 clam
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
"Pycnodonta sylvaerupis" = Pycnodonte
"Pycnodonta sylvaerupis" = Pycnodonte oyster
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostrea sylvaerupis