Highway 84 bridge, Tenmile Creek (Miocene of the United States)

Where: Calhoun County, Florida (30.5° N, 85.2° W: paleocoordinates 30.9° N, 81.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• Lower 10 feet of the Chipola Formation

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal; unlithified, green, sandy, calcareous claystone

• According to Vokes (1989), the beds are considered to be shallower in origin than those on the river, but in very quiet water, perhaps lagoonal.
• Green calcareous sandy clay

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by C.C. Branson in 1944

• Repository: University of Missouri

Primary reference: A. K. Miller. 1947. Tertiary nautiloids of the Americas. Geological Society of America Memoir 23:1-234 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 180412: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 16.07.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Cephalopoda
 Nautilida - Aturiidae
"Aturia curvilineata" = Aturia cubaensis
"Aturia curvilineata" = Aturia cubaensis Lea 1841 nautiloid