Where: Calhoun County, Florida (30.5° N, 85.2° W: paleocoordinates 30.9° N, 81.5° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Chipola Formation (Alum Bluff Group), Burdigalian (20.4 - 16.0 Ma)
• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: From the Chipola Fm of the Alum Bluff Gp, for which lithostratigraphic relationships are not discussed. AGE: late Early Miocene, on the basis of macro fossil biostratigraphy; direct date from 87Sr/86Sr isotope dating of fossils from elsewhere in Chipola Fm [=Burdigalian age]. STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From unknown position within formation.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; sandy marl
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: N. E. Weisbord. 1971. Corals from the Chipola and Jackson Bluff Formations of Florida. Geological Bulletin State of Florida Department of Natural Resources Division of Interior Resources Bureau of Geology 53:1-105 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 123562: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 25.01.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
"Thysanus vaughani n. sp." = Symbiangia vaughani
"Thysanus vaughani n. sp." = Symbiangia vaughani Weisbord 1971 stony coral | |
Antillophyllia chipolana n. sp.
Antillophyllia chipolana n. sp. Weisbord 1971 stony coral |