FLa-1 (Crystal River): Priabonian, Florida

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Laguna floridanum
1 specimen
originally entered as "Laganuim floridanum"
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Acteonidae
Lithophysema sp. Stewart 1926
4 specimens
Gastropoda - Xenophoridae
Xenophora sp. Fischer von Waldheim 1807
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Conidae
Conus tortilis (Conrad 1854)
4 specimens
synonym of Conus sauridens
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostrea podogrina
35 specimens
    = Ostrea podagrina Dall 1895
Palmer and Brann 1965
recombined as Ostrea (Ostrea) podagrina
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Malleidae
Exputens ocalensis (McNeil 1934)
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Chlamys spillmani
5 specimens
Chlamys clinchfieldensis
7 specimens
Chlamys spillmani
12 specimens
"spillmani "vars." Chlamys spillmani clinchfieldensis - originally entered as "Chlamys spillmani "vars."
Chlamys sp. Röding 1798
1 specimen
originally entered as "Chlamys spp."
Amussium ocalanum
65 specimens
corrected as Amusium
originally entered as "Amusium ocalanum"
unclassified
Vertebrata indet. Lamarck 1801
1 specimen
fish spine
Echinoidea - Echinoneoida - Echinoneidae
Amblypygus americanus Desor 1858
1 specimen
Echinoidea - Clypeasteroida - Oligopygidae
Oligopygus wetherbyi de Lortiol 1887
56 specimens
Oligopygus haldemani (Conrad 1850)
8 specimens
recombined as Oligopygus haldermani
Echinoidea - Clypeasteroida - Neolaganidae
Weisbordella cubae
75 specimens
Echinoidea - Spatangoida - Schizasteridae
Agassizia floridana
10 specimens
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Oculinidae
Oculina floridana
2 specimens
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Florida County:Lafayette
Coordinates: 30.1° North, 83.2° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:30.2° North, 75.5° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Eocene
Stage:Priabonian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 3
*Period:Tertiary *Local age/stage:Ludian
Key time interval:Priabonian
Age range of interval:37.71000 - 33.90000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Crystal River Limestone
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: supposedly "Ludian"; stage assignment based on Baum et al. 1994; Section FLa-1
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "carbonate"
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Metadata
Database number:3570
Authorizer:M. Patzkowsky, A. Hendy Enterer:K. Layou, A. Hendy
Modifier:J. Sessa Research group:GCP,marine invertebrate
Created:1999-08-05 06:32:11 Last modified:2010-08-10 17:09:30
Access level:the public Released:1999-08-05 06:32:11
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

124. L. D. Toulmin. 1977. Stratigraphic Distribution of Paleocene and Eocene Fossils in the Eastern Gulf Coast Region. Geological Survey of Alabama, Monograph 13(1):1-602 [M. Patzkowsky/K. Layou/P. Mannion]

Secondary references:

11845 K. V. Palmer and D. C. Brann. 1965. Catalogue of the Paleocene and Eocene mollusca of the southern and eastern United States. Part 1. Pelecypoda, Amphineura, Peteropoda, Scaphopoda and Cephalopoda. Bulletins of American Paleontology 48:1-471 [M. Kosnik/M. Kosnik/J. Alroy]