Also known as LGS 30
Where: Sabine County, Louisiana (31.6° N, 93.5° W: paleocoordinates 35.1° N, 76.4° 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
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 98920: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Laurie Eccles on 22.10.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
"Ostrea thirsae" = Odontogryphaea thirsae, Ostrea (Ostrea) multilirata
"Ostrea thirsae" = Odontogryphaea thirsae Gabb 1862 oyster
Ostrea (Ostrea) multilirata oyster | |
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Anthozoa | |
Madracis gregorioi Vaughan 1900 stony coral |