FGS Station 1/964 - Harveys Creek [Jackson Bluff Fm] (Pliocene of the United States)

Where: Leon County, Florida (30.4° N, 84.6° W: paleocoordinates 30.5° N, 83.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Jackson Bluff Formation (Alum Bluff Group), Late/Upper Pliocene (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)

• 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 = Harveys Creek, 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

• No reported geologic or paleoenvironmental data. Probably shallow water siliciclastic depositional environment.
• The sediments comprising the Cancellaria Zone consist of a fine to coarse grained clayey sand containing many fossils. Lithification data not reported, but all figured specimens appear to be free of matrix so an unlithified classification is assigned.

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the USNM

• Specimens are lodged in USNM collections. Collected by Mansfield (1925)

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 59490: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 03.04.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Probably exhaustive for Mollusca. Certainly good nomenclatural treatment.
Scaphopoda
 Dentaliida - Dentaliidae
Gastropoda
 Cerithioidea - Scaliolidae
"Alabina adamsi" = Finella adamsi
"Alabina adamsi" = Finella adamsi Dall 1889 snail
Subspecies: Alabina adamsi leonensis
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
 Sorbeoconcha - Naticidae
"Natica canrena" = Naticarius canrena
"Natica canrena" = Naticarius canrena Linnaeus 1758 moon snail
 Neogastropoda - Olividae
"Oliva sayana" = Oliva (Ispidula) sayana
"Oliva sayana" = Oliva (Ispidula) sayana Ravenel 1834 olive snail
 Neogastropoda - Cancellariidae
Cancellaria tabulata Gardner and Aldrich 1919 snail
 Neogastropoda - Volutidae
"Marginella popenoei" = Bullata taylori
"Marginella popenoei" = Bullata taylori Olsson 1916 volute
 Neogastropoda - Mangeliidae
"Mangilia gardnerae" = Cythara (Mangelia)
"Mangilia gardnerae" = Cythara (Mangelia) snail
 Opisthobranchia - Cylichnidae
Acteocina canaliculata Say 1826 barrel-bubble
Bivalvia
 Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
"Leda trochilia" = Nuculana
"Leda trochilia" = Nuculana pointed nut clam
Subspecies: L. trochilia coensis
 Nuculida - Nuculidae
Nucula taphria Dall 1898 nut clam
 Cardiida - Mactridae
Mulinia congesta Conrad 1833 clam
 Lucinida - Lucinidae
"Phacoides (Parvilucina) crenulatus" = Parvilucina crenulata, "Phacoides (Lucinisca) cribrarius" = Lucinisca cribrarius
"Phacoides (Parvilucina) crenulatus" = Parvilucina crenulata Conrad 1840 clam
"Phacoides (Lucinisca) cribrarius" = Lucinisca cribrarius Say 1824 clam
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
"Chlamys (Plagioctenium) eboreus" = Carolinapecten eboreus
"Chlamys (Plagioctenium) eboreus" = Carolinapecten eboreus Conrad 1833 scallop
Subspecies: C. (P.) eboreus darlingtonensis
 Pectinida - Anomiidae
Anomia simplex d'Orbigny 1845 jingle