Where: Sabine County, Louisiana (31.4° N, 93.6° W: paleocoordinates 34.2° N, 79.3° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Pendleton Ferry Formation (Wilcox Group), Ypresian (56.0 - 47.8 Ma)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; unlithified, glauconitic, brown, gray, blue sandstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Primary reference: J. O. Barry and R. J. LeBlanc. 1942. Lower Eocene Faunal Units of Lousiana. Geological Bulletin of the state of Louisiana Dept. of Conservation (23)1-208 [J. Sessa/L. Eccles/L. Eccles]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 98925: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Laurie Eccles on 22.10.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Madracis gregorioi Vaughan 1900 stony coral | |
Bivalvia | |
Nuculana sp. Link 1807 pointed nut clam | |
Venericardia (Venericor) sabinensis n. sp. clam | |
"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 | |
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Gastropoda | |
Pleurotomella veatchi snail | |
"Pleurotoma capax" = Turris
"Pleurotoma capax" = Turris turrid | |
Cornulina minax Solander 1766 snail |