Also known as Station 41
Where: Walton County, Florida (30.7° N, 86.1° W: paleocoordinates 31.0° N, 83.4° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Shoal River Formation (Alum Bluff Group), Serravallian (13.8 - 11.6 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Shoal River Fm of the Alum Bluff, which lies between the Chipola Fm (Early Miocene) and the Chochtawatchee Fm [Early Pliocene). AGE: Early Miocene (Gardener 1947); Middle Miocene in Vokes (1990) and Portell et al. (2006), although Jones et al. (1993) reports 87Sr/86Sr ratios that yielded average age estimates of 12.4 Ma [=Serravalian]. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within formation.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified, calcareous marl and unlithified, calcareous sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Harris et al. in 1935; reposited in the PRI
Collection methods: bulk, sieve,
• COLLECTOR: G.D. Harris, R.H. Flowers and K.V.W. Palmer, 1935. REPOSITORY: PRI, Ithaca NY. COMMENTS: Replicate 1 of 3 splits from PRI Loc. 1596.
Primary reference: A. J. W. Hendy, D. P. Buick, K. V. Bulinski, C. A. Ferguson, and A. I. Miller. 2008. Unpublished census data from Atlantic coastal plain and circum-Caribbean Neogene assemblages and taxonomic opinions. [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 80021: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 01.04.2008, edited by Kate Bulinski
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Subcancilla sp. Olsson and Harbison 1953 mitre shell | |
"Eumetadrillia rabdotocona" = Agladrillia (Eumetadrillia), "Crassispira calligonoides" = Crassispira (Hindsiclava) calligonoides
"Eumetadrillia rabdotocona" = Agladrillia (Eumetadrillia) snail
"Crassispira calligonoides" = Crassispira (Hindsiclava) calligonoides Gardner 1938 snail | |
Conus waltonensis Aldrich 1903 cone shell | |
Turridae indet. Swainson 1840 turrid | |
"Uzita pedona" = Nassarius (Uzita)
"Uzita pedona" = Nassarius (Uzita) snail | |
Fusinus sp. Rafinesque 1815 snail | |
Cancellaria waltoniana, "Cancellaria defuniak" = Cancellaria (Cancellaria) defuniak
Cancellaria waltoniana snail
"Cancellaria defuniak" = Cancellaria (Cancellaria) defuniak Gardner 1947 snail | |
"Oliva liodes" = Oliva (Omogymna) liodes, Olivella eleuthria
"Oliva liodes" = Oliva (Omogymna) liodes Dall 1903 olive snail
Olivella eleuthria olive snail | |
Stigmaulax guppiona, "Polinices judsoni" = Natica judsoni
Stigmaulax guppiona moon snail
"Polinices judsoni" = Natica judsoni Maury 1910 moon snail | |
Crucibulum multilineatum Conrad 1842 slipper shell | |
Bivalvia | |
Cerastoderma waltonianum Dall 1900 cockle
Trachycardium plectopleura cockle | |
"Phyllodina sp." = Tellina (Phyllodina)
"Phyllodina sp." = Tellina (Phyllodina) Dall 1900 tellin clam | |
Arcinella arcinella Linnaeus 1767 jewel box | |
Mercenaria prodona quahog
Lirophora (Panchione) funiakensis Gardner 1947 venus clam
Pitar prosayana venus clam
Macrocallista maculata Linnaeus 1758 venus clam | |
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"Scambula densus" = Crassatella densus
"Scambula densus" = Crassatella densus Dall 1900 clam | |
Anadara (Diluvarca) sp. Woodring 1925 ark | |
Costaglycymeris waltonensis Gardner 1947 clam | |
Bryozoa | |
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831 |