Where: Natchitoches County, Louisiana (31.7° N, 93.4° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 37.3° N, 66.3° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Marthaville Formation (Wilcox Group), Thanetian (59.2 - 56.0 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, glauconitic, silty, calcareous claystone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: J. O. Barry and R. J. LeBlanc. 1942. Lower Eocene Faunal Units of Lousiana. Geological Bulletin of the state of Louisiana Dept. of Conservation (23)1-208 [J. Sessa/L. Eccles/L. Eccles]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 99729: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Laurie Eccles on 19.11.2010

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