USGS Loc. 10611 - White's Creek [Chipola Fm] (Miocene of the United States)

Where: Walton County, Florida (30.6° N, 86.0° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 33.4° N, 78.7° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• Direct date from 87Sr/86Sr isotope dating of fossils from elsewhere in Chipola Fm [=Burdigalian age].

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; unlithified, calcareous marl and unlithified, calcareous sandstone

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

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the USGS

Primary reference: J. R. Gardner. 1947. The Molluscan Fauna of the Alum Bluff Group of Florida. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper (142A-H)1-709 [A. Miller/K. Layou/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 42214: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 26.07.2004

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Taxonomic list

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Bivalvia
 Nuculanida - Yoldiidae
Yoldia frater
Yoldia frater clam
abundant
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
"Ostrea haitensis" = Hyotissa haitensis
"Ostrea haitensis" = Hyotissa haitensis Sowerby 1850 oyster
common