CAS Loc. 578. Alum Bluff, Apalachicola River left bank, 3.5 miles N. of Bristow (Miocene of the United States)

Where: Calhoun County, Florida (28.6° N, 80.8° W: paleocoordinates 28.9° N, 77.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Chipola Formation (Alum Bluff Group), Burdigalian (20.4 - 16.0 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; unlithified, calcareous marl

• marls, sands and clays, for the most part unconsolidated, highly calcareous in places

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the USGS

Primary reference: W. M. Ingram. 1948. New fossil Cypraeidae from the Miocene of Florida and Colombia. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 26(6):125-133 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 179631: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 22.06.2016

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Taxonomic list

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Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Cypraeidae
"Cypraea apalachicolae n. sp." = Loxacypraea apalachicolae, "Cypraea hertleini n. sp." = Cypraeorbis willcoxi
"Cypraea apalachicolae n. sp." = Loxacypraea apalachicolae Ingram 1948 cowry
"Cypraea hertleini n. sp." = Cypraeorbis willcoxi Dall 1890 cowry
Cypraea alumensis
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"Cypraea alumensis n. sp." = Floradusta alumensis
"Cypraea alumensis n. sp." = Floradusta alumensis Ingram 1948