Marion County, Florida #1 (Eocene of the United States)

Also known as FMr-1

Where: Marion County, Florida (29.2° N, 82.1° W: paleocoordinates 29.4° N, 73.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Crystal River Limestone Formation, Bartonian (41.3 - 38.0 Ma)

• The upper formation of the Ocala Group in Northern Florida.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, dolomitic, shelly/skeletal limestone and dolomite

• limestone made of skeletal fragments of inverterbrates, dolotimized in places.

Collection methods: bulk, core, chemical, mechanical,

• tr= trace. Indicates presence at the locality but in numbers insufficient to determine volume percentages.

Primary reference: A. H. Cheetham. 1963. Late Eocene Zoogeography of the Eastern Gulf Coast Region. The Geological Society of America Memoir 91:1-113 [L. Ivany/E. Kowalski]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 7325: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Elizabeth Kowalski on 23.05.2000

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Bryozoans only
unclassified
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Gymnolaemata
 Cheilostomata - Poricellariidae
 Cheilostomata - Romancheinidae
 Cheilostomata - Onychocellidae
 Cheilostomata - Lunulitidae
 Cheilostomata - Calloporidae
 Cheilostomata - Quadricellariidae
Nellia tenella Lamarck 1816
 Cheilostomata - Bitectiporidae
 Cheilostomata - Tubucellariidae
 Cheilostomata - Phidoloporidae
"Retepora scutulata" = Reteporella
"Retepora scutulata" = Reteporella