Where: Okaloosa County, Florida (30.5° N, 86.5° W: paleocoordinates 30.7° N, 84.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Choctawhatchee Formation, Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)

• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: From the Choctawhatchee, which overlies the Shoal River Fm (Middle Miocene). AGE: Late Miocene, on the basis of macrofossil and microfossils biostratigraphy. STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From 161 ft below surface.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; poorly lithified, gray, green, sandy marl

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Collected by Glendenning in 1939

Collection methods: core,

• COLLECTOR: G.W. Glendenning (United States Forest Service). REPOSITORY: Probably Florida Geological Survey.

Primary reference: R. H. Smith. 1941. Micropaleontology and stratigraphy of a deep well at Niceville, Okaloosa County, Florida. Bulletin of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists 25(2):263-286 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 94805: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 24.03.2010

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