LGS 41 (Eocene of the United States)

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

• Bluish gray or oxidized brown glauconitic sands.

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
 Scleractinia - Astrocoeniidae
Madracis gregorioi Vaughan 1900 stony coral
Bivalvia
 Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Nuculana sp. Link 1807 pointed nut clam
 Carditida - Carditidae
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
"Cardium (Cerastoderma) tuomeyi" = Acanthocardia (Schedocardia) tuomeyi
"Cardium (Cerastoderma) tuomeyi" = Acanthocardia (Schedocardia) tuomeyi Aldrich 1886 cockle
Cardium (Cerastoderma) tuomeyi var.
 Cardiida - Tellinidae
Tellina bellsiana tellin clam
 Cardiida - Veneridae
Pitaria (Pitaria) nuttelliopsis venus clam
including Pitar (Pitar) nuttalliopsis greggi
 Pholadida - Corbulidae
Gastropoda
 Neogastropoda - Raphitomidae
 Neogastropoda - Turridae
"Pleurotoma capax" = Turris
"Pleurotoma capax" = Turris turrid
 Neogastropoda - Melongenidae
Cornulina minax Solander 1766 snail