FLa-1 (Crystal River) (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Lafayette County, Florida (30.1° N, 83.2° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 33.0° N, 68.2° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Crystal River Limestone Formation, Priabonian (37.7 - 33.9 Ma)

• supposedly "Ludian"; stage assignment based on Baum et al. 1994; Section FLa-1

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; carbonate

Size class: mesofossils

Primary reference: 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]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 3570: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Karen Layou on 05.08.1999, edited by Austin Hendy

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Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Laguna floridanum
originally entered as "Laganuim floridanum"
Echinoidea
 Clypeasteroida - Neolaganidae
Weisbordella cubae sand dollar
 Clypeasteroida - Oligopygidae
Oligopygus wetherbyi, "Oligopygus haldemani" = Oligopygus haldermani
Oligopygus wetherbyi de Lortiol 1887 sand dollar
"Oligopygus haldemani" = Oligopygus haldermani Conrad 1850 sand dollar
 Spatangoida - Schizasteridae
Agassizia floridana heart urchin
 Echinoneoida - Echinoneidae
Amblypygus americanus Desor 1858 sea urchin
unclassified
  -
Vertebrata indet. Lamarck 1801
fish spine
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Malleidae
Exputens ocalensis McNeil 1934 oyster
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
"Ostrea podagrina" = Ostrea (Ostrea) podagrina
"Ostrea podagrina" = Ostrea (Ostrea) podagrina Dall 1895 oyster
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
"Amussium ocalanum" = Amusium scallop
originally entered as "Amusium ocalanum"
Chlamys spillmani scallop
"spillmani "vars." Chlamys spillmani clinchfieldensis - originally entered as "Chlamys spillmani "vars."
Chlamys sp. Röding 1798 scallop
originally entered as "Chlamys spp."
Gastropoda
 Neogastropoda - Conidae
"Conus tortilis" = Conus sauridens
"Conus tortilis" = Conus sauridens Conrad 1833 cone shell
 Sorbeoconcha - Xenophoridae
Xenophora sp. Fischer von Waldheim 1807 carrier shell
 Heterostropha - Acteonidae
Lithophysema sp. Stewart 1926 snail
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Oculinidae
Oculina floridana stony coral