ammonites
Montgomery Landing (Eocene to of the United States)

Also known as H-76-75

Where: Winn County, Louisiana (32.2° N, 92.1° W: paleocoordinates 33.3° N, 82.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Cockfield Formation, Lutetian to Lutetian (48.6 - 33.9 Ma)

• "Late Lutetian-Early Priabonian" (T. Hansen pers. comm.)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; unlithified, burrowed, argillaceous, calcareous siltstone

• "rare otoliths and vertebrae, bryozoa. shells fairly worn."

Collection methods: bulk, mechanical, sieve,

Primary reference: S. R. Elder. 1981. Fossil assemblages of a marine transgressive sand, Moody''s Branch Formation (Upper Eocene), Louisiana and Mississippi. Unpublished M.A. Thesis, University of Texas at Austin 1-140 [T. Hansen/M. Sommers/A. Clement] more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 1294: authorized by Thor Hansen, entered by Mike Sommers on 08.04.1999, edited by Jocelyn Sessa