PRI Loc. 1596 (sample 29, replicate A) - McClellans Farm [Shoal River Fm] (Miocene of the United States)

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

• ENVIRONMENT: Shallow marine siliciclastic.
• LITHOLOGY: Marls, sands, clays, for the most part unconsolidated, in places highly calcareous

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 Unpublished census data from Atlantic coastal plain and circum-Caribbean Neogene assemblages and taxonomic opinions.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

• COVERAGE: Exhaustive for gastropoda and bivalvia. NOMENCLATURE: Based on Gardner (1947) with revised nomenclature by A. Hendy (4/2008).
Gastropoda
 Neogastropoda - Mitridae
Subcancilla sp. Olsson and Harbison 1953 mitre shell
 Neogastropoda - Drilliidae
"Eumetadrillia rabdotocona" = Agladrillia (Eumetadrillia), "Crassispira calligonoides" = Crassispira (Hindsiclava) calligonoides
"Eumetadrillia rabdotocona" = Agladrillia (Eumetadrillia) snail
"Crassispira calligonoides" = Crassispira (Hindsiclava) calligonoides Gardner 1938 snail
 Neogastropoda - Conidae
Conus waltonensis Aldrich 1903 cone shell
 Neogastropoda - Turridae
Turridae indet. Swainson 1840 turrid
 Neogastropoda - Nassariidae
"Uzita pedona" = Nassarius (Uzita)
"Uzita pedona" = Nassarius (Uzita) snail
 Neogastropoda - Columbellidae
 Neogastropoda - Fasciolariidae
Fusinus sp. Rafinesque 1815 snail
 Neogastropoda - Cancellariidae
"Cancellaria defuniak" = Cancellaria (Cancellaria) defuniak Gardner 1947 snail
 Neogastropoda - Olividae
"Oliva liodes" = Oliva (Omogymna) liodes Dall 1903 olive snail
Olivella eleuthria olive snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Naticidae
Stigmaulax guppiona, "Polinices judsoni" = Natica judsoni
"Polinices judsoni" = Natica judsoni Maury 1910 moon snail
 Neotaenioglossa - Calyptraeidae
Crucibulum multilineatum Conrad 1842 slipper shell
Bivalvia
 Lucinida - Lucinidae
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
 Cardiida - Tellinidae
"Phyllodina sp." = Tellina (Phyllodina)
"Phyllodina sp." = Tellina (Phyllodina) Dall 1900 tellin clam
 Cardiida - Chamidae
Arcinella arcinella Linnaeus 1767 jewel box
 Cardiida - Veneridae
Lirophora (Panchione) funiakensis Gardner 1947 venus clam
Pitar prosayana venus clam
Macrocallista maculata Linnaeus 1758 venus clam
 Carditida - Astartidae
Astarte sima clam
[entered as Astarte sina]
 Carditida - Crassatellidae
"Scambula densus" = Crassatella densus
"Scambula densus" = Crassatella densus Dall 1900 clam
 Arcida - Arcidae
Anadara (Diluvarca) sp. Woodring 1925 ark
 Arcida - Glycymerididae
Costaglycymeris waltonensis Gardner 1947 clam
Bryozoa
  -
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831