Where: Bastrop County, Texas (30.0° N, 97.3° W: paleocoordinates 33.4° N, 83.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Reklaw Formation (Claiborne Group), Early/Lower Eocene (55.8 - 48.6 Ma)

• "3 feet below sample E"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; glauconitic, gray, green claystone

Size class: microfossils

Collected by J. B. Garrett, C. F. Washburn

Collection methods: surface (float),

• Lousiana State University collection

•"Ostracoda are not uncommon in the surface exposure, and while rare in the subsurface, they are usually present"

Primary reference: M. B. Stephenson. 1944. Ostracoda from the Reklaw Eocene of Bastrop County, Texas. Journal of Paleontology 18(5):448-454 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 94038: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 08.02.2010

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