Also known as USGS Loc. 2056
Where: Rusk County, Texas (31.9° N, 94.7° W: paleocoordinates 34.9° N, 80.3° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Reklaw Formation (Claiborne Group), Ypresian (56.0 - 47.8 Ma)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: mesofossils
Collected by Johnson; reposited in the USNM
• COLLECTOR: L.C. Johnson. REPOSITORY: USNM (formerly USGS).
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 99034: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Ursula Smith on 25.10.2010, edited by Austin Hendy
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea | |
Protoscutella mississippiensis Clark and Twitchell 1915 sand dollar | |
Gastropoda | |
Terebellum "sp. B" Röding 1798 true conch |