Also known as Mansfield station #5
Where: Pinellas County, Florida (28.2° N, 82.8° W: paleocoordinates 28.4° N, 77.9° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Tampa Limestone Member (Arcadia Formation), Chattian to Chattian (28.1 - 20.4 Ma)
• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: Formerly referred to as the Tampa Limestone. Scott et al. (2001) assign the Tampa to the rank of member and place it in the Arcadia Formation. AGE: Mansfield suggests age equivalencies (based primarily on faunal similarities) with the Chipola Fm., the Trent Marl of North Carolina, and the Anguilla Fm. of Anguilla. Placed here into the Chattian-Aquitanian on the basis of most recent chronostratigraphy.
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, white, sandy, cherty/siliceous limestone
Size class: mesofossils
Preservation: cast, mold/impression, permineralized, replaced with silica
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 61070: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Chad Ferguson on 29.05.2006, edited by Austin Hendy
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Bivalvia | |
Lithophaga (Diberus) bisulcata d'Orbigny 1853 mussel | |
Anadara tarponensis, "Arca (Arca) umbonata" = Lamarcka imbricata
"Arca (Arca) umbonata" = Lamarcka imbricata Bruguière 1789 clam | |
Amusium sp. Röding 1798 scallop | |
Plicatula densata Conrad 1843 scallop | |
"Cardita (Carditamera) anclotensis" = Carditamera
"Cardita (Carditamera) anclotensis" = Carditamera clam | |
"Cardium (Trachycardium) anclotense" = Trachycardium, "Cardium (? Dinocardium) pinellasense" = Dinocardium
"Cardium (Trachycardium) anclotense" = Trachycardium cockle
"Cardium (? Dinocardium) pinellasense" = Dinocardium cockle | |
"Chione (Chamelea) rhodia" = Chamelea
"Chione (Chamelea) rhodia" = Chamelea venus clam | |
"Diplodonta alta" = Diplodonta (Diplodonta) alta
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Gastropoda | |
"Xancus polygonatus" = Turbinella
"Xancus polygonatus" = Turbinella snail | |
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Conus designatus cone shell | |
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Murex trophoniformis murex snail
? Urosalpinx inornata murex snail
Rapana vaughani Mansfield 1937 murex snail | |
Strombus liocyclus conch | |
Orthaulax pugnax Heilprin 1887 snail | |
Serpulorbis granifera Say 1824 worm shell | |
Sinum ? imperforatum Dall 1915 moon snail | |
Turritella tarponensis turret shell | |
Cerithium ? praecursor cerith snail | |
"Potamides (Pyrazisinus) cornutus" = Pyrazisinus, Potamides (Pyrazisinus) campanulatus
"Potamides (Pyrazisinus) cornutus" = Pyrazisinus snail
Potamides (Pyrazisinus) campanulatus Heilprin 1887 snail | |
Ampullina (Ampullinopsis) amphora Heilprin 1887 snail
Globularia solidula snail | |
Calyptraea (Trochita) aperta Solander 1766 slipper shell |