Where: Leon County, Florida (30.4° N, 84.6° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 30.9° N, 83.5° W (Wright 2013)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Jackson Bluff Formation (Alum Bluff Group), Late/Upper Pliocene (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)
• Fossils from the upper part of the marl and directly beneath the unfossiliferous surface material. Cancellaria Zone of Choctawhatchee Formation, Alum Bluff Group. The Cancellaria zone is in the highest fossiliferous beds along Harveys Creel. The total thickness of this zone is 25-30 ft. Late Miocene age based on recent lithostratigraphy. Local section name = Jackson Bluff, Basinal/regional section name = Leon. Placed in Jackson Bluff Fm (and hence Late Pliocene) by enterer.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified, fine-grained, coarse, shelly/skeletal, argillaceous sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the USNM
• Specimens are lodged in USNM collections. Collected by Florida Geological Survey (1927)
Primary reference: W. C. Mansfield. 1930. Miocene gastropods and scaphopods of the Choctawatchee Formation of Florida. Florida State Geological Survey Bulletin 3 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 59486: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 03.04.2006, edited by Bethany Allen
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Bivalvia | |
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Bivalvia | |
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Gastropoda | |
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Bivalvia | |
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Gastropoda | |
Crucibulum auriculum imbricatum slipper shell | |
Bivalvia | |
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"Cardita (Carditamera) arata" = Carditamera arata2, "Venericardia (Cyclocardia) granulata" = Cyclocardia granulata2
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Macoma (Psammacoma) hosfordensis2, "Tellina (Moerella) macilenta" = Moerella macilenta2, "Tellina (Merisca) aequistriata" = Serratina aequistriata2
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"Venus campechiensis carolinensis" = Venus (Mercenaria) campechiensis carolinensis2, "Chione (Lirophora) ulocyma" = Lirophora (Panchione) ulocyma2, "Dosinia (Dosinidia) acetabulum" = Dosinia acetabulum2, Cyclinella cf. tenuis2, "Macrocallista (Paradione) reposta" = Macrocallista (Macrocallista) reposta2, "Gafrarium (Gouldia) metastriatum" = Gouldia2
"Venus campechiensis carolinensis" = Venus (Mercenaria) campechiensis carolinensis2 Conrad 1875 quahog | |
"Spisula (Hemimactra) delumbis" = Leptomactra delumbis2
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"Pandora (Kennerleyia) arenosa" = Pandora (Pandorella) arenosa2
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"Arca (Anadara) improcera" = Anadara2, "Arca (Anadara) propearesta" = Anadara2, "Arca (Anadara) campsa" = Anadara campsa2, "Arca (Anadara) lienosa" = Anadara (Rasia) lienosa2, "Barbatia (Granoarca) propatula" = Barbatia (Barbatia) propatula2
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"Plicatula marginata" = Plicatula gibbosa2
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"Chlamys (Plagioctenium) comparilis" = Aequipecten comparilis2
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"Ostrea haitensis" = Hyotissa haitensis2
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"Nucula proxima" = Nucula (Nucula) proxima2
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"Pleurodon woodii" = Nucinella woodii2
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Gastropoda | |
"Crucibulum auriculum" = Crucibulum (Crucibulum) auricula
"Crucibulum auriculum" = Crucibulum (Crucibulum) auricula Gmelin 1791 slipper shell | |
"Turritella duplinensis" = Turritella (Torculoidella) duplinensis
"Turritella duplinensis" = Turritella (Torculoidella) duplinensis Gardner and Aldrich 1919 turret shell | |
Polinices (Mammillaria) caroliniana moon snail | |
"Cymatium (Linatella) floridanum" = Linatella caudata
"Cymatium (Linatella) floridanum" = Linatella caudata Gmelin 1791 triton shell | |
"Sconsia hodgei" = Sconsia hodgii
"Sconsia hodgei" = Sconsia hodgii Conrad 1841 snail | |
"Xenophora delecta floridana" = Xenophora floridana
"Xenophora delecta floridana" = Xenophora floridana Mansfield 1930 carrier shell | |
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"Marginella popenoei" = Bullata taylori2
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Purpura marshalli murex snail | |
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"Crassispira antealesidota" = Crassispira (Hindsiclava) antealesidota2
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Myurella binodosa auger snail | |
Triphora sp. Blainville 1828 snail | |
Teinostoma harveyensis snail | |
"Architectonica granulata" = Architectonica nobilis
"Architectonica granulata" = Architectonica nobilis Röding 1798 sundial | |
Turbonilla (Pyrgiscus) "sp. C", Turbonilla (Pyrgiscus) "sp. D", Turbonilla (Pyrgiscus) "sp. E", "Turbonilla (Chemnitzia) "sp. B"" = Chemnitzia, Pyramidella "sp. C"
Turbonilla (Pyrgiscus) "sp. C" Philippi 1841 snail
Turbonilla (Pyrgiscus) "sp. D" Philippi 1841 snail
Turbonilla (Pyrgiscus) "sp. E" Philippi 1841 snail
"Turbonilla (Chemnitzia) "sp. B"" = Chemnitzia d'Orbigny 1840 snail
Pyramidella "sp. C" Lamarck 1799 snail |