M 836 - Mt. Enterprise [Reklaw Fm] (Eocene of the United States)

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
 Clypeasteroida - Protoscutellidae
Protoscutella mississippiensis Clark and Twitchell 1915 sand dollar
Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Strombidae
Terebellum "sp. B" Röding 1798 true conch