Also known as Mansfield locality #15
Where: Wakulla County, Florida (30.2° N, 84.3° W: paleocoordinates 30.5° N, 79.4° 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 61100: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Chad Ferguson on 29.05.2006, edited by Austin Hendy
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Modiolus ? blandus, "Modiolus (Botula) cinnamomeus" = Botula cinnamomeus
Modiolus ? blandus mussel
"Modiolus (Botula) cinnamomeus" = Botula cinnamomeus Lamarck 1819 mussel | |
"Glycymeris ? lamyi" = Tucetona lamyi
"Glycymeris ? lamyi" = Tucetona lamyi Dall 1915 clam | |
Barbatia (Plagiarca) ? marylandica, Anadara hypomela, "Barbatia (Plagiarca) arcula" = Plagiarca, Arca (Arca) grammatodonta, "Arca (Arca) umbonata" = Lamarcka imbricata
Barbatia (Plagiarca) ? marylandica Conrad 1840 clam
Anadara hypomela ark
"Barbatia (Plagiarca) arcula" = Plagiarca clam
"Arca (Arca) umbonata" = Lamarcka imbricata Bruguière 1789 clam | |
"Chlamys (Lyropecten) ? burnetti" = Lyropecten scallop
Chlamys (Chlamys) crocus scallop | |
"Venericardia serricosta" = Venericardia (Glyptoactis) serricosta
"Venericardia serricosta" = Venericardia (Glyptoactis) serricosta Heilprin 1887 clam | |
Phacoides (Linga) wacissanus Dall 1915 clam | |
Cardium (Trigoniocardia) gadsdenense, "Cardium (Trachycardium) phlyctaena" = Trachycardium (Dallocardia) phlyctaena, "Cardium (Trachycardium) ? hernandoense" = Trachycardium
Cardium (Trigoniocardia) gadsdenense Mansfield 1937 cockle
"Cardium (Trachycardium) phlyctaena" = Trachycardium (Dallocardia) phlyctaena Dall 1900 cockle
"Cardium (Trachycardium) ? hernandoense" = Trachycardium cockle | |
Semele ? sardonica Dall 1890 clam | |
Tellina (Tellinella) ? silicata tellin clam | |
"Chione cf. spenceri" = Chione (Chionopsis) bainbridgensis, "Antigona (Artena) glyptoconcha" = Artena
"Chione cf. spenceri" = Chione (Chionopsis) bainbridgensis Dall 1916 venus clam
"Antigona (Artena) glyptoconcha" = Artena venus clam | |
Gastrochaena aff. cuneiformis Spengler 1783 clam | |
"Panope goldfussil" = Panopea
"Panope goldfussil" = Panopea clam | |
Pholadomya sp. Sowerby 1823 clam | |
"Nuculana flexuosa" = Polidevcia flexuosa
"Nuculana flexuosa" = Polidevcia flexuosa Lutkevitch and Lobanova 1960 clam | |
Gastropoda | |
Scaphander ballista snail | |
Cerithium aff. georgianum cerith snail | |
Potamides (Pyrazisinus) campanulatus Heilprin 1887 snail | |
Potamides (Lampanella) transecta horn snail | |
Turritella ? megalobasis turret shell
Turritella tampae Heilprin 1887 turret shell | |
"Cypraea ? tumulus" = Zonaria tumulus
"Cypraea ? tumulus" = Zonaria tumulus Heilprin 1886 cowry | |
Fusiturricula condominia ribbed mitre
Conomitra angulata ribbed mitre | |
"Xancus polygonatus" = Turbinella
"Xancus polygonatus" = Turbinella snail | |
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Lyria heilprini volute | |
Coralliophila magna murex snail
Murex tritonopsis murex snail | |
Strombus liocyclus conch | |
Orthaulax pugnax Heilprin 1887 snail | |
Ampullina (Ampullinopsis) amphora Heilprin 1887 snail | |
Calyptraea (Trochita) aperta Solander 1766 slipper shell | |
Cerion | |