USGS Loc. 3173 - Fuller's earth mines, 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 claystone

• marls, sands, clays, for the most part unconsolidated, in places highly calcareous; used claystone instead of sandstone based on Fuller's earth description

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 42420: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 29.07.2004

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Taxonomic list

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Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
"Pecten (Chlamys) acanikos" = Lindapecten acanikos
"Pecten (Chlamys) acanikos" = Lindapecten acanikos Gardner 1926 scallop
common