PRI 1553 (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Bossier County, Louisiana (32.5° N, 93.7° W: paleocoordinates 33.6° N, 84.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: mesofossils

Collection methods: Collected by G.D. Harris

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 90631: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Laurie Eccles on 11.08.2009

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Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Neogastropoda - Volutidae
Athleta wheelockensis volute
Athleta wheelockensis sabinensis
Bivalvia
 Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Adrana aldrichiana Harris 1895 pointed nut clam
 Arcida - Arcidae