Also known as Mansfield locality # 21

Where: Gadsden County, Florida (30.7° N, 84.8° W: paleocoordinates 31.1° N, 80.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Tampa Limestone Member (Arcadia Formation), Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 16.0 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.

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•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 61117: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Chad Ferguson on 29.05.2006

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