Florida Geological Survey L-118, Avon Park Limestone, Levy Co., FL: Lutetian, Florida

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Trichechidae indet.
mantee rib
Ostracoda
Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802
Gastropoda - Cerithiidae
Bellatara citrana
Bellatara floridana
"Cerithium" sp. Bruguière 1789
Bivalvia - Lucinida - Lucinidae
Fimbria olssoni n. sp.
Here sp. (Gabb 1866)
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Glossidae
? Blagraveia gunteri
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
Macrocallista annexa
Bivalvia - Carditida - Carditidae
Venericardia scabricostata (Guppy 1866)
recombined as Cardita (Glans) scabricostata
unclassified
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
Plantae indet. Haeckel 1866
Valvulinidae
Lituonella sp. Schlumberger and Douvillé 1905
Coskinolina floridana
Orbitolinidae
Dictyoconus cookei
Tubothalamea - Miliolida - Peneroplidae
Peneroplidae indet. Renss 1860
Elphidiidae
Elphidium informal sp. A Monfort 1808
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Florida County:Levy
Coordinates: 29.3° North, 82.7° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:29.9° North, 71.8° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Eocene
Stage:Lutetian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 2
Key time interval:Lutetian
Age range of interval:47.80000 - 41.20000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Avon Park
Local section:L-118 Local bed:Beds 1-5
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Description of measured section from Vernon (1951) (FGS Bulletin 33); specimens labelled L-118A are from bed 1, those labelled L-118B are from Bed 4. In the occurrence information for this paper, the specimens are listed as Avon Park specimens, with either L-118A or simply L-118 listed (there are no L-118B specimens). Therefore, the taxonomic list encompasses all five beds within the Avon Park, and those noted as from L-118A (Bed 1) are noted in the comment field.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:brown,gray poorly lithified "limestone"
Secondary lithology: dolomite
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: bed 1: brownish gray to brown, purple-tinted, soft but tough granular, massive, porous, limestone containing an abundant Avon Park fauna; bed 2: brown to greenish gray, very pure, thin-bedded, dense carbonate; bed 3: brownish gray, purple-tinted, very dense, fine grained lithographic dolomite; bed 4: tan to brownish gray, dense, fine-grained, fragmental dolomite; bed 5: tan to brown, extremely platy and laminated by alternate layers of plant remains and silt-sized euhedral dolomite crystals
Environment:marine indet. Tectonic setting:passive margin
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some microfossils,difficult macrofossils
Collection methods:salvage,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:41452
Authorizer:A. Miller Enterer:K. Layou
Modifier:J. Sessa Research group:GCP,marine invertebrate
Created:2004-07-14 13:37:15 Last modified:2010-08-06 11:19:04
Access level:the public Released:2004-07-14 13:37:15
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
11115. H. G. Richards and K.V.W. Palmer. 1953. Eocene Mollusks from Citrus and Levy Counties, Florida. Florida Geological Survey Geological Bulletin (35) [A. Miller/K. Layou/K. Layou]