Where: Okaloosa County, Florida (30.5° N, 86.5° W: paleocoordinates 30.7° N, 84.8° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Choctawhatchee Formation, Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)
• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: From the Choctawhatchee, which overlies the Shoal River Fm (Middle Miocene). AGE: Late Miocene, on the basis of macrofossil and microfossils biostratigraphy. STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From 172 ft below surface.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; poorly lithified, gray, green, sandy marl
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils
Collected by Glendenning in 1939
Collection methods: core,
• COLLECTOR: G.W. Glendenning (United States Forest Service). REPOSITORY: Probably Florida Geological Survey.
Primary reference: R. H. Smith. 1941. Micropaleontology and stratigraphy of a deep well at Niceville, Okaloosa County, Florida. Bulletin of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists 25(2):263-286 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 94806: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 24.03.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Ostracoda | |
Cythereis exanthamata ostracod
Cythereis aff. garretti ostracod | |
Cytherella sp. Jones 1849 ostracod | |
Scaphopoda | |
Dentalium carolinense tusk shell | |
Bivalvia | |
Phacoides sp. Blainville 1825 clam | |
Globothalamea | |
Foraminifera | |
Textularia candeiana d'Orbigny 1839 |