11-T-70A (Eocene of the United States)

Also known as Pinoak Creek

Where: Bastrop County, Texas (30.0° N, 97.1° W: paleocoordinates 31.4° N, 88.4° W)

When: Cook Mountain Formation (Claiborne Group), Bartonian (41.3 - 38.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified claystone

• clay, ironstone layers

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by Christopher Garvie

Primary reference: W. J. Foster, C. L. Garvie, A. M. Weiss, A. D. Muscente, M. Aberhan, J. W. Counts, and R. C. Martindale. 2020. Resilience of marine invertebrate communities during the early Cenozoic hyperthermals. Scientific Reports 10:2176 [A. Miller/J. Sessa/W. Foster]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 205222: authorized by William Foster, entered by William Foster on 09.10.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Opisthobranchia - Cylichnidae
Philine ? sp. Ascanius 1772 snail
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
Omalaxis singleyi turret shell
 Sorbeoconcha - Naticidae
Sinum inconstans moon snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Ficidae
"Ficopsis penita" = Ficus
"Ficopsis penita" = Ficus fig shell
 Neogastropoda - Conidae
Conus sp. Linnaeus 1758 cone shell
 Neogastropoda - Turridae
 Neogastropoda - Mitromorphidae
"cf. Mitrolumna sp." = Mitromorpha
"cf. Mitrolumna sp." = Mitromorpha Carpenter 1865 snail
 Neogastropoda - Fasciolariidae
 Neogastropoda - Mitridae
Fusimitra ? sp. Conrad 1855 mitre shell
 Sorbeoconcha - Ovulidae
"Neosimnia cf. subtruncata" = Simnia subtruncata
"Neosimnia cf. subtruncata" = Simnia subtruncata Johnson 1899 snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Strombidae
Rimella ? sp. Agassiz 1840 true conch
 Heterostropha - Mathildidae
Bivalvia
 Cardiida - Ungulinidae
Diplodonta sp. Bronn 1831 clam
 Cardiida - Tellinidae
Tellina sp. Linnaeus 1758 tellin clam
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
Nemocardium sp. Meek 1876 cockle
 Carditida - Astartidae
Lirodiscus smithvillensis Harris 1895 clam