Also known as Mansfield Loc. 48
Where: Columbia County, Florida (30.1° N, 82.7° W: paleocoordinates 30.1° N, 76.3° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Suwannee Limestone Formation (Vicksburg Group), Rupelian (33.9 - 28.1 Ma)
• Cunningham et al. (1998) identified Suwannee LS as Early Oligocene age. Cooke and Mansfield (1936) assigned Suwannee to Vicksburg group. Suwannee assigned to Rupelian Stage (early Oligocene) by Brewster-Wingard et al. (1987) and COSUNA (1988).
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lithified, white limestone
Primary reference: W. C. Mansfield. 1937. Molluscs of the Tampa and Suwannee Limestones. Geological Bulletin, State of Florida Department of Conservation 15:1-334 [A. Miller/C. Ferguson/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 60672: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Chad Ferguson on 19.05.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea | |
Rhyncholampas gouldii Bouvé 1846 sea urchin | |
Gastropoda | |
Scaphander sp. Monfort 1810 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Phacoides wacissanus Dall 1915 clam | |
Modiolus silicatus mussel
Modiolus ? grammatus Dall 1898 mussel |