Where: Sabine County, Texas (31.3° N, 93.8° W: paleocoordinates 32.4° N, 85.0° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Moodys Branch Formation (Jackson Group), Bartonian (41.3 - 38.0 Ma)
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: mesofossils
Collection methods: Collected by A.C. Veatch. Field No. 30. See La Rept. Pl. 33.
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 91087: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Laurie Eccles on 03.09.2009, edited by Ursula Smith
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
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Dolicholatirus leaensis Harris 1897 snail | |
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Lapparia dumosa Conrad 1854 volute | |
Scaphopoda | |
Cadulus (Polyschides) margarita Harris and Palmer 1947 tusk shell | |
Bivalvia | |
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