M 727 (Eocene to of the United States)

Where: Winn County, Louisiana (31.8° N, 92.3° W: paleocoordinates 32.7° N, 84.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Jackson Group, Bartonian to Bartonian (41.3 - 33.9 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: 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 98949: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Laurie Eccles on 24.10.2010

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
"Pycnodonta vicksburgensis" = Pycnodonte
"Pycnodonta vicksburgensis" = Pycnodonte oyster
Pycnodonta vicksburgensis var.