Where: Calhoun County, Florida (30.4° N, 85.2° W: paleocoordinates 30.8° N, 81.5° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-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: marine; unlithified, calcareous marl and unlithified, calcareous sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: original aragonite
Collected by Vokes & Vokes; reposited in the FLMNH, USNM
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
• COLLECTOR: E.H. Vokes and H.E. Vokes. REPOSITORY: FLMNH, USNM.
Primary reference: E. H. Vokes and H. E. Vokes. 2000. Catalogue of Tulane University fossil localities. Unpublished notes [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 89575: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 03.06.2009, edited by Pete Wagner
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Alabina (Caloosalba) turbatrix6, Alabina (Caloosalba) boiplex6, Bittium serenum n. sp.6, Rhinoclavis (Ochetoclava) chipolana6, Hemicerithium craticulum6, Hemicerithium cossmanni6, Hemicerithium akriton6
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"Charcolleria distinguenda" = Massyla distinguenda8
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Conus gardnerae7, Conus vegrandis7, Conus chipolanus7, Conus ambonos7, Conus demiurgus7, Conus rapunculus7, Conus praecipuus7, Conus tricoratus7, Conus trajectionis7, Conus sulculus7
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Oliva (Oliva) vokesorum4, Oliva (Oliva) blowi4, Oliva (Omogymna) liodes4, Oliva (Omogymna) martensii4
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Dermomurex (Viator) vaughani16, Poirieria (Panamurex) fusinoides11, Poirieria (Panamurex) lychnia11, Poirieria (Panamurex) mauryae11, Murex (Murex) chipolanus9, Murex (Murex) gilli9, Chicoreus (Chicoreus) elusivus14, "Murex (Murex) gardnerae" = Chicoreus (Siratus) juliagardnerae9, Pterotyphis (Tripterotyphis) vokesae5, Siphonochelus (Laevityphis) linguiferus5, Hexaplex veatchi19, "Typhis (Talityphis) obesus" = Typhina obesa5, Pygmaepterys pratulum n. sp.20, Pygmaepterys drezi n. sp.20
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"Erronea (Adusta) shirleyae n. sp." = Zonaria shirleyae3, "Erronea (Adusta) heilprinii" = Zonaria heilprinii3, "Lyncina theresae n. sp." = Zonaria theresae3, "Talparia (Talparia) dominicensis" = Luria dominicensis3
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"Miltha (Miltha) chipolana" = Miltha chipolana10
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