Where: Hillsborough County, Florida (28.0° N, 82.4° W: paleocoordinates 28.2° N, 77.6° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Tampa Limestone Member (Arcadia Formation), Chattian to Chattian (28.1 - 20.4 Ma)
• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: Formerly referred to as the Tampa Limestone. Scott et al. (2001) assign the Tampa to the rank of member and place it in the Arcadia Formation. AGE: Mansfield suggests age equivalencies (based primarily on faunal similarities) with the Chipola Fm., the Trent Marl of North Carolina, and the Anguilla Fm. of Anguilla. Placed here into the Chattian-Aquitanian on the basis of most recent chronostratigraphy.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: cast
Primary reference: N. E. Weisbord. 1973. New and little-known corals from the Tampa Formation of Florida. Bulletin State of Florida Department of Natural Resources Division of Interior Resources Bureau of Geology 56:1-146 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 123677: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 26.01.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Siderastrea silecensis Vaughan 1919 stony coral
Siderastrea banksi n. sp. Weisbord 1973 stony coral | |
"Goniopora matsoni" = Porites portoricensis
"Goniopora matsoni" = Porites portoricensis Vaughan 1919 stony coral | |
Flabellum sp. Lesson 1831 stony coral | |
Montastrea tampaensis Vaughan 1919 stony coral | |
"Montastrea annularis" = Orbicella annularis
"Montastrea annularis" = Orbicella annularis Ellis and Solander 1876 stony coral | |
? Anthemiphyllia sp. Pourtales 1878 stony coral | |
"Stylophora cf. minutissima" = Stylophora minor
"Stylophora cf. minutissima" = Stylophora minor Duncan 1863 stony coral | |
Alveopora tampae Weisbord 1973 stony coral |