ammonites
Bunker Hill (H-79-10-5) (Eocene to of the United States)

Also known as H-79-10

Where: Caldwell County, Louisiana (32.0° N, 92.0° W: paleocoordinates 33.1° N, 82.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Moodys Branch 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

• "fairly good preservation, 3 C. densata articulated. Several A. minutus bored. fossils are small size."

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 Unpublished M.A. Thesis, University of Texas at Austin 1-140 [T. Hansen/M. Sommers/A. Clement] more details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 1420: authorized by Thor Hansen, entered by Mike Sommers on 13.04.1999