USGS Loc. 3749 - Senterfeit Mill [Oak Grove Sand]: Burdigalian, Florida

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Opisthobranchia - Cylichnidae
Acteocina sphalera
rare
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Anomiidae
Anomia floridana
rare
Bivalvia - Arcida - Glycymerididae
Glycymeris drymanos Gardner 1926
recombined as Costaglycymeris drymanos
common; ? in occurrence table
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
Cardium (Cerastoderma) panastrum
original and current combination Cerastoderma
rare
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
Chione (Lirophora) ceramota Gardner 1947
recombined as Lirophora (Lirophora) ceramota
present; ? in occurrence table
Venus prodroma Gardner 1947
recombined as Mercenaria prodroma
common
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Mactridae
Spisula (Hemimactra) craspedota Gardner 1947
recombined as Spisula craspedota
present
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Corbulidae
Corbula (Caryocorbula) whitfieldi Brown 1905
recombined as Cuneocorbula whitfieldi
rare
Corbula waltonensis Gardner 1928
synonym of Varicorbula disparilis
rare
Corbula (Caryocorbula) seminella
present
Bivalvia - Lucinida - Lucinidae
Phacoides (Parvilucina) flumenvadosa
spelled with current rank as Parvilucina
rare; ? in occurrence table
Lucina santarosana Dall 1903
recombined as Pegophysema santarosana
rare; ? in occurrence table
Bivalvia - Carditida - Crassatellidae
Crassatellites (Scambula) densus (Dall 1900)
recombined as Crassatella densus
rare
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Florida County:Walton
Coordinates: 30.9° North, 86.5° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:31.3° North, 82.8° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
Stage:Burdigalian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 5
Key time interval:Burdigalian
Age range of interval:20.44000 - 15.98000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Alum Bluff Formation:Oak Grove
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Stratigraphy comments: LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: From the Oak Grove Fm of the Alum Bluff Gp, for which lithostratigraphic relationships are not discussed. AGE: late Early Miocene, on the basis of macro fossil biostratigraphy. STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From unknown position within formation.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:gray,green unlithified calcareous sandstone
Lithology description: gray-green sands, for the most part unconsolidated, in places highly calcareous
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:USGS
Metadata
Database number:42685
Authorizer:A. Miller Enterer:K. Layou
Modifier:A. Hendy Research group:GCP,marine invertebrate
Created:2004-08-04 08:40:39 Last modified:2012-12-05 20:42:02
Access level:the public Released:2004-08-04 08:40:39
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

11206. J. R. Gardner. 1947. The Molluscan Fauna of the Alum Bluff Group of Florida. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper (142A-H)1-709 [A. Miller/K. Layou/A. Hendy]