Where: Calhoun County, Florida (30.5° N, 85.2° W: paleocoordinates 30.9° N, 81.5° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Chipola Formation (Alum Bluff Group), Burdigalian (20.4 - 16.0 Ma)
• COMMENTS: Corals without labels from the Florida State University collections probably from the Chipola Formation. LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: From the Chipola Fm of the Alum Bluff Gp, for which lithostratigraphic relationships are not discussed. AGE: late Early Miocene, on the basis of macro fossil biostratigraphy; direct date from 87Sr/86Sr isotope dating of fossils from elsewhere in Chipola Fm [=Burdigalian age]. STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From unknown position within formation.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: N. E. Weisbord. 1971. Corals from the Chipola and Jackson Bluff Formations of Florida. Geological Bulletin State of Florida Department of Natural Resources Division of Interior Resources Bureau of Geology 53:1-105 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 123564: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 26.01.2012
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Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Montastrea cf. costata Duncan 1863 stony coral
Montastrea cavernosa Linne 1767 stony coral | |
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Porites chipolanum Weisbord 1971 stony coral | |
Stylophora imperatoris Vaughan 1919 stony coral
Stylophora undata n. sp. Weisbord 1971 stony coral | |
Stylocoenia cf. pumpellyi, "? Stephanocoenia decaseptata n. sp." = Madracis decaseptata
Stylocoenia cf. pumpellyi Vaughan 1900 stony coral
"? Stephanocoenia decaseptata n. sp." = Madracis decaseptata Weisbord 1971 stony coral |