Citrus County, Florida #24 (Eocene of the United States)

Also known as FC-24

Where: Citrus County, Florida (28.7° N, 82.6° W: paleocoordinates 28.9° N, 74.0° 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 amount insufficient to include in the 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 7328: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Elizabeth Kowalski on 23.05.2000

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Bryozoans only
Gymnolaemata
 Cheilostomata - Candidae
 Cheilostomata - Calloporidae
 Cheilostomata - Lepraliellidae
"Holoporella sp." = Celleporaria
"Holoporella sp." = Celleporaria Lamouroux 1821
 Cheilostomata - Romancheinidae
 Cheilostomata - Lunulitidae
 Cheilostomata - Tessaradomidae
 Cheilostomata - Quadricellariidae
Nellia tenella Lamarck 1816
 Cheilostomata - Tubucellariidae
 Cheilostomata - Smittinidae
 Cheilostomata - Tetraplariidae
 Cheilostomata - Escharinidae
"Scrupocellaria elliptica" = Bactridium ellipticum
"Scrupocellaria elliptica" = Bactridium ellipticum Reuss 1848