USGS Loc. 322b - Newmansville [Hawthorn Fm] (Miocene of the United States)

Where: Alachua County, Florida (29.0° N, 82.0° W: paleocoordinates 29.4° N, 78.0° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Hawthorn Group, Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; unlithified, calcareous marl and unlithified, calcareous sandstone

• marls, sands, clays, for the most part unconsolidated, in places highly calcareous

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 42433: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 29.07.2004

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Taxonomic list

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Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostrea normalis
Ostrea normalis Gardner 1926 oyster
present