Where: Levy County, Florida (29.4° N, 82.4° W: paleocoordinates 29.5° N, 74.8° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Crystal River Limestone Formation, Priabonian (38.0 - 33.9 Ma)
• supposedly "Ludian"; stage assignment based on Baum et al. 1994; Section FLe-1
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; carbonate
Size class: mesofossils
Primary reference: L. D. Toulmin. 1977. Stratigraphic Distribution of Paleocene and Eocene Fossils in the Eastern Gulf Coast Region. Geological Survey of Alabama, Monograph 13(1):1-602 [M. Patzkowsky/K. Layou/P. Mannion]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 3572: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Karen Layou on 05.08.1999
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Lithophysema sp. Stewart 1926 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Gigantostrea trigonalis Conrad 1854 oyster | |
Chlamys spillmani scallop |