Where: Polk County, Florida (28.2° N, 82.2° W: paleocoordinates 28.2° N, 75.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Suwannee Limestone Formation, Early/Lower Oligocene (33.9 - 28.4 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Suwannee Fm of the Vicksburg Group. AGE: Early Oligocene (Latdorfian) based on correlation with the Gulf Coastal Plain succession. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within formation.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; poorly lithified, shelly/skeletal, cherty/siliceous limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: replaced with silica

Collected by Kendrew & Petuch; reposited in the FMNH

Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ),

• COLLECTORS: E. Kendrew and E. Petuch. REPOSITORY:UF (University of Florida, Gainesville, FL) = FLMNH.

Primary reference: E. J. Petuch. 1997. A new gastropod fauna from an Oligocene back-reef lagoonal environment in west central Florida. The Nautilus 110(4):122-138 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 80184: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 08.04.2008, edited by Mihaela Krause

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