Also known as Mansfield station #11
Where: Jefferson County, Florida (30.5° N, 84.0° W: paleocoordinates 30.8° N, 79.3° 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 61096: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Chad Ferguson on 29.05.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Helicina ? ballista snail | |
Turritella megalobasis turret shell | |
Potamides (Lampanella) transecta horn snail | |
Potamides (Pyrazisinus) campanulatus Heilprin 1887 snail | |
Strombus liocyclus conch | |
"Olivella ? eutorta" = Omogymna eutorta
"Olivella ? eutorta" = Omogymna eutorta Dall 1915 olive snail | |
Latirus floridanus snail | |
Conus planiceps Heilprin 1887 cone shell two distinct occurrences: species planiceps and subspecies wakullensis
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Fusiturricula lapenotierei ribbed mitre | |
Lyria musicina volute | |
"Cypraea tumulus" = Zonaria tumulus
"Cypraea tumulus" = Zonaria tumulus Heilprin 1886 cowry | |
"Bulimulus (Hyperaulax) ? americanus" = Tocobaga americanus
"Bulimulus (Hyperaulax) ? americanus" = Tocobaga americanus Heilprin 1886 slug | |
Bivalvia | |
"Barbatia (Acar) domingensis" = Acar domingensis
"Barbatia (Acar) domingensis" = Acar domingensis Lamarck 1819 miniature ark | |
"Glycymeris ? lamyi" = Tucetona lamyi
"Glycymeris ? lamyi" = Tucetona lamyi Dall 1915 clam | |
Chlamys (Chlamys) crocus scallop | |
Ostrea vaughani Dall 1915 oyster | |
Anomalocardia penita venus clam
Venus ? halidona venus clam | |
Cardium (Trigoniocardia) gadsdenense, "? Hippopus gunteri" = Omanidacna gunteri
Cardium (Trigoniocardia) gadsdenense Mansfield 1937 cockle
"? Hippopus gunteri" = Omanidacna gunteri Mansfield 1937 cockle | |
"Venericardia serricosta" = Venericardia (Glyptoactis) serricosta
"Venericardia serricosta" = Venericardia (Glyptoactis) serricosta Heilprin 1887 clam | |
Crassatella deformis clam |