Where: Liberty County, Florida (30.4° N, 85.0° W: paleocoordinates 30.8° N, 81.3° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Chipola Formation (Alum Bluff Group), Burdigalian (20.4 - 16.0 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: described as Lower or "Chipola" bed. AGE: Direct date from 87Sr/86Sr isotope dating of fossils from elsewhere in Chipola Fm [=Burdigalian age].
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; unlithified, calcareous marl and unlithified, calcareous sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the USGS
Primary reference: J. R. Gardner. 1947. The Molluscan Fauna of the Alum Bluff Group of Florida. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper (142A-H)1-709 [A. Miller/K. Layou/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 42271: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 27.07.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
"Ostrea rugifera" = Cubitostrea rugifera
"Ostrea rugifera" = Cubitostrea rugifera Dall 1898 oyster | |
"Phacoides chipolanus" = Miltha chipolana
"Phacoides chipolanus" = Miltha chipolana Dall 1903 clam |