Where: Calhoun County, Florida (30.5° 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)
• Direct date from 87Sr/86Sr isotope dating of fossils from elsewhere in Chipola Fm [=Burdigalian age].
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; unlithified, calcareous marl and unlithified, calcareous sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the USGS
Primary reference: W. M. Ingram. 1939. Notes on Cypraea heilprini Dall and Cypraea chilona Dall, with new species from the Pliocene of Costa Rica. Bulletins of American Paleontology 24(84):321-326 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 179088: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 28.05.2016
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
"Cypraea heilprini n. sp." = Zonaria heilprinii
"Cypraea heilprini n. sp." = Zonaria heilprinii Dall 1890 cowry |