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Claiborne - Cook Mountain - Saline Bayou, Winn Parish, Louisiana, USA

GroupClaiborne
FormationCook Mountain
MemberSaline Bayou
Age:41.3 - 38.0 Ma
Eocene
IntervalLutetian - Bartonian
Lithologyclaystone
Number of Collections2
Number of Occurrences4

Recorded Sample Locations

LocationRegionStratigraphic Name
St. MauriceWinn Parish, Louisiana, USAClaiborne - Cook Mountain - Saline Bayou
St. Maurice RR station on Saline BayouWinn Parish, Louisiana, USAClaiborne - Cook Mountain - Saline Bayou

Recorded Fossils

Accepted NameHierarchyAge
Turbinolia (Turbinolia) pharetra
species
7Animalia : Cnidaria : Anthozoa : Scleractinia : Turbinoliidae : Turbinolia : Turbinolia (Turbinolia) pharetra47.8 - 38 Ma
Eocene
Turbinolia subtercisa
species
7Animalia : Cnidaria : Anthozoa : Scleractinia : Turbinoliidae : Turbinolia : Turbinolia subtercisa47.8 - 38 Ma
Eocene
Turbinolia tenuis
species
7Animalia : Cnidaria : Anthozoa : Scleractinia : Turbinoliidae : Turbinolia : Turbinolia tenuis47.8 - 38 Ma
Eocene
Aturia garretti
species
7Animalia : Mollusca : Cephalopoda : Nautilida : Aturiidae : Aturia : Aturia garretti41.3 - 38 Ma
Eocene

References

Monsour E. (1944) Fossil corals of the genus Turbinolia from the Golf Coast, Journal of Paleontology 18 2, 109-118
Palmer K. V., Brann D. C. (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
Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!
 
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