Where: Calhoun County, Florida (30.4° N, 85.2° W: paleocoordinates 30.8° N, 81.5° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• 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
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 42449: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 29.07.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Strombus chipolanus" = Persististrombus chipolanus
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