Where: Leon County, Florida (30.4° N, 84.6° W: paleocoordinates 30.5° N, 83.9° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Jackson Bluff Formation (Alum Bluff Group), Late/Upper Pliocene (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)
• Cancellaria Zone of Choctawhatchee Formation, Alum Bluff Group. The Cancellaria zone is in the highest fossiliferous beds along Harveys Creel. The total thickness of this zone is 25-30 ft. Late Miocene age based on recent lithostratigraphy. Local section name = Harveys Creek, Basinal/regional section name = Leon. Placed in Jackson Bluff Fm (and hence Late Pliocene) by enterer.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified, fine-grained, coarse, shelly/skeletal, argillaceous sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the USNM
• Specimens are lodged in USNM collections. Collected by Mansfield (1925)
Primary reference: W. C. Mansfield. 1930. Miocene gastropods and scaphopods of the Choctawatchee Formation of Florida. Florida State Geological Survey Bulletin 3 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 59490: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 03.04.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Scaphopoda | |
Dentalium (Dentalium) carolinense tusk shell | |
Bivalvia | |
"Phacoides (Lucinisca) cribrarius" = Lucinisca cribrarius, "Phacoides (Parvilucina) crenulatus" = Parvilucina crenulata
"Phacoides (Lucinisca) cribrarius" = Lucinisca cribrarius Say 1824 clam
"Phacoides (Parvilucina) crenulatus" = Parvilucina crenulata Conrad 1840 clam | |
Mulinia congesta Conrad 1833 clam | |
"Chlamys (Plagioctenium) eboreus" = Carolinapecten eboreus
"Chlamys (Plagioctenium) eboreus" = Carolinapecten eboreus Conrad 1833 scallop Subspecies: C. (P.) eboreus darlingtonensis
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Anomia simplex d'Orbigny 1845 jingle | |
Nucula taphria Dall 1898 nut clam | |
"Leda trochilia" = Nuculana
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Gastropoda | |
"Marginella popenoei" = Bullata taylori
"Marginella popenoei" = Bullata taylori Olsson 1916 volute | |
Cancellaria tabulata Gardner and Aldrich 1919 snail | |
"Oliva sayana" = Oliva (Ispidula) sayana
"Oliva sayana" = Oliva (Ispidula) sayana Ravenel 1834 olive snail | |
"Mangilia gardnerae" = Cythara (Mangelia)
"Mangilia gardnerae" = Cythara (Mangelia) snail | |
"Natica canrena" = Naticarius canrena
"Natica canrena" = Naticarius canrena Linnaeus 1758 moon snail | |
Turritella etiwanensis turret shell | |
"Alabina adamsi" = Finella adamsi
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Acteocina canaliculata Say 1826 barrel-bubble |