USGS Loc. 12744 - Ellaville [Suwannee Lmst] (Oligocene of the United States)

Where: Suwanee County, Florida (30.0° N, 83.2° W: paleocoordinates 30.1° N, 76.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Suwannee Limestone Formation (Vicksburg Group), Rupelian (33.9 - 28.1 Ma)

• AGE: Cunningham et al. (1998) identified Suwannee Limestone as Early Oligocene age. Cooke and Mansfield (1936) assigned Suwannee to Vicksburg group. Suwannee assigned to Rupelian Stage (early Oligocene) by Brewster-Wingard et al. (1987) and COSUNA (1988). STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From lowest bed.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, white limestone

• Author notes that the fauna indicate warm water conditions rather than cold.
• The formation consists almost entirely of limestone. The unweathered rock is a granular to dense, compact, usually cream-colored rather pure limestone. The lower par is at many places more granular than the upper. Mossom (1925) provided the following lithologic description from the Suwannee LS quarry of the Florida Hard Rock Products Co., Brooksville, FL: Silica - 6.54%; Iron and aluminum - 1.44%; Calcium carbonate - 91.09%; Magnesium carbonate - trace; Undetermined - 0.93%

Collected by Mansfield; reposited in the USNM

• COLLECTORS: W.C. Mansfield. REPOSITORY: USNM (formerly USGS).

Primary reference: C. W. Cooke. 1959. Cenozoic echinoids of eastern United States. United States Geological Survey Professional Papers 321:1-106 [L. Villier/L. Villier/M. Hopkins]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 155950: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 04.05.2014

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Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Limited to echinoidea, but molluscs are probably present. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication with species-resolution identifications, but somewhat antiquated nomenclature.
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Echinoidea
 Clypeasteroida - Clypeasteridae
Clypeaster rogersi
Clypeaster rogersi Morton 1834 sand dollar