Where: Calhoun County, Florida (28.6° N, 80.8° W: paleocoordinates 28.9° N, 77.2° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Chipola Formation (Alum Bluff Group), Burdigalian (20.4 - 16.0 Ma)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; unlithified, calcareous marl
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the USGS
Primary reference: W. M. Ingram. 1948. New fossil Cypraeidae from the Miocene of Florida and Colombia. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 26(6):125-133 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 179631: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 22.06.2016
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
"Cypraea hertleini n. sp." = Cypraeorbis willcoxi, "Cypraea apalachicolae n. sp." = Loxacypraea apalachicolae
"Cypraea hertleini n. sp." = Cypraeorbis willcoxi Dall 1890 cowry
"Cypraea apalachicolae n. sp." = Loxacypraea apalachicolae Ingram 1948 cowry | |
Cypraea alumensis | |
"Cypraea alumensis n. sp." = Floradusta alumensis
"Cypraea alumensis n. sp." = Floradusta alumensis Ingram 1948 |