TU 655 - Tenmile Creek [Chipola Fm] (Miocene of the United States)

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

• ENVIRONMENT: Not discussed in text.
• LITHOLOGY: Marls, sands, clays, for the most part unconsolidated, in places highly calcareous. LITHIIFCATION: Unlithified, on the basis of figured specimens.

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 Unpublished notes [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/P. Wagner]more details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 92513: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 17.11.2009

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Limited to taxa described in taxonomic treatments. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication with modern nomenclature and species-resolution identifications.
Gastropoda
 Cerithioidea - Cerithiidae
Alabina (Caloosalba) turbatrix4 Hoerle 1972 cerith snail
Alabina (Caloosalba) boiplex4 Dall 1892 cerith snail
Bittium serenum4 Hoerle 1972 cerith snail
Rhinoclavis (Ochetoclava) chipolana4 Dall 1892 cerith snail
Hemicerithium cossmanni4 Dall 1892 cerith snail
 Architaenioglossa - Ampullinidae
Globularia fischeri11 Dall 1892 snail
 Neogastropoda - Conidae
Conus gardnerae5 Hoerle 1976 cone shell
"Conus cracens n. sp." = Conus sauridens5 Conrad 1833 cone shell
Conus vegrandis5 Hoerle 1976 cone shell
Conus chipolanus5 Dall 1896 cone shell
Conus rapunculus5 Hoerle 1976 cone shell
Conus tricoratus5 Hoerle 1976 cone shell
Conus isomatratus5 Dall 1896 cone shell
Conus sulculus5 Dall 1896 cone shell
 Neogastropoda - Olividae
Oliva (Oliva) vokesorum2 Drez 1981 olive snail
Oliva (Omogymna) liodes2 Dall 1903 olive snail
Oliva (Omogymna) martensii2 Dall 1903 olive snail
 Neogastropoda - Muricidae
Poirieria (Panamurex) fusinoides8 Gardner 1947 murex snail
Poirieria (Panamurex) laccopoia8 Gardner 1947 murex snail
Poirieria (Panamurex) mauryae8 Vokes 1970 murex snail
Haustellum gilli12 murex snail
"Chicoreus (Chicoreus) cornurectus" = Chicoreus (Triplex) cornurectus6 Guppy 1876 murex snail
Chicoreus (Chicoreus) elusivus10 Vokes 1974 murex snail
Chicoreus (Siratus) juliagardnerae9 Vokes 1970 murex snail
"Typhis (Talityphis) obesus" = Typhina obesa3 Gabb 1873 murex snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Tonnidae
Eudolium subfasciatum1 Sacco 1890 tun shell
Bivalvia
 Lucinida - Lucinidae
"Miltha (Miltha) chipolana" = Miltha chipolana7
"Miltha (Miltha) chipolana" = Miltha chipolana7 Dall 1903 clam
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Rhizangiidae
Symbiangia vaughani13 Weisbord 1971 stony coral