Also known as Mansfield locality #16
Where: Wakulla County, Florida (30.2° N, 84.2° W: paleocoordinates 30.5° 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)
• 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.
•aLITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: 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.
•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.
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• 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 61103: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Chad Ferguson on 29.05.2006
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Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Potamides (Pyrazisinus) campanulatus Heilprin 1887 snail | |
Turritella tampae Heilprin 1887 turret shell | |
Ampullina (Ampullinopsis) amphora Heilprin 1887 snail | |
Bivalvia | |