Also known as LGS 49

Where: Sabine County, Louisiana (31.4° N, 93.6° W: paleocoordinates 34.9° N, 76.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Pendleton Ferry Formation (Wilcox Group), Thanetian (59.2 - 56.0 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; unlithified, fine-grained, glauconitic, gray, blue sandstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: Cornell University station.

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 98929: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Laurie Eccles on 22.10.2010

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