USGS Loc. 3704 - Quincy [Chipola Fm] (Miocene of the United States)

Where: Gadsden County, Florida (30.6° N, 84.6° W: paleocoordinates 31.0° N, 80.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• AGE: 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 42419: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 29.07.2004

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
"Pecten (Chlamys) acanikos" = Lindapecten acanikos
"Pecten (Chlamys) acanikos" = Lindapecten acanikos Gardner 1926 scallop
abundant
 Arcida - Arcidae
"Arca (Diluvarca) santarosana" = Anadara (Diluvarca) santarosana
"Arca (Diluvarca) santarosana" = Anadara (Diluvarca) santarosana Dall 1898 ark
present; A. (D.) santarosana geraetera
 Cardiida - Veneridae
Chione chipolana Dall 1903 venus clam
rare; ? in occurrence table
 Carditida - Carditidae
"Venericardia hadra" = Venericardia (Glyptoactis) hadra
"Venericardia hadra" = Venericardia (Glyptoactis) hadra Dall 1903 clam
rare; ? in occurrence table
Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Cypraeidae
"Cypraea (Cypraeorbis) chilona" = Loxacypraea chilona
"Cypraea (Cypraeorbis) chilona" = Loxacypraea chilona Dall 1900 cowry
rare; ? in occurrence table
 Neogastropoda - Muricidae
"Murex (Chicoreus) folidodes" = Chicoreus (Chicoreus) folidodes
"Murex (Chicoreus) folidodes" = Chicoreus (Chicoreus) folidodes Gardner 1947 murex snail
rare; ? in occurrence table
 Neogastropoda - Melongenidae
Busycon burnsii whelk
? in occurrence table