Gulf Oil No. 1 Kie Vining Borehole (Silurian of the United States)

Where: Florida (30.3° N, 82.6° W: paleocoordinates 70.3° S, 41.9° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Pridoli (423.0 - 419.2 Ma)

• Unnamed formation. Pridolian?

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marginal marine; black shale

• "Shallow, quiet water marine. A BA1-2 assignment is likely."
• "black shale"

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: E.N. Kjellesvig-Waering. 1955. A new phyllocarid and eurypterid from the Silurian of Florida . Journal of Paleontology 29(2):295-297 [R. Plotnick/R. Plotnick]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 26877: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 06.11.2002

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

 Life -
Acritarcha indet. Evitt 1963 acritarchs
Malacostraca
 Archaeostraca - Ceratiocarididae
Ceratiocaris berdanae Kjellesvig-Waering 1955
Euchelicerata
 Eurypterida - Pterygotidae
Acutiramus suwanneensis Kjellesvig-Waering 1955 eurypterid