Where: Calhoun County, Florida (30.4° N, 85.2° W: paleocoordinates 30.8° N, 81.5° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Chipola Formation (Alum Bluff Group), Burdigalian (20.4 - 16.0 Ma)
• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: From the Chipola Fm of the Alum Bluff Gp, for which lithostratigraphic relationships are not discussed. AGE: late Early Miocene, on the basis of macro fossil biostratigraphy; direct date from 87Sr/86Sr isotope dating of fossils from elsewhere in Chipola Fm [=Burdigalian age]. STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From unknown position within formation.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; unlithified, calcareous marl and unlithified, calcareous sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: original aragonite
Collected by Vokes & Vokes; reposited in the FLMNH, USNM
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
• COLLECTOR: E.H. Vokes and H.E. Vokes. REPOSITORY: FLMNH, USNM.
Primary reference: E. H. Vokes and H. E. Vokes. 2000. Catalogue of Tulane University fossil localities. Unpublished notes [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 89576: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 03.06.2009, edited by Loic Villier and Pete Wagner
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Bivalvia | |
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"Miltha (Miltha) chipolana" = Miltha chipolana11
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Cerithium (Thericium) vokesorum6, "Cerithium burnsii" = Cerithium (Thericium) burnsii6, Cerithium (Thericium) chipolanum6
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Typhis (Typhinellus) chipolanus n. sp.5, "Chicoreus (Chicoreus) cornurectus" = Chicoreus (Triplex) cornurectus15, Chicoreus (Chicoreus) dujardinoides9, Chicoreus (Chicoreus) elusivus15, Poirieria (Panamurex) mauryae12, Pterynotus (Pterynotus) hoerlei n. sp.12, Pterotyphis (Pterotyphis) calhounensis n. sp.5, Dermomurex (Viator) vaughani17, Dermomurex (Dermomurex) matercula17, Murexiella (Murexiella) shilohensis10, Murexiella (Murexiella) calhounensis10, "Typhis (Talityphis) obesus" = Typhina obesa5
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Conus isomatratus8, Conus aquoreus8, Conus tapetus8, Conus chipolanus8, Conus gardnerae8, Conus erugatus8, Conus sulculus8, Conus demiurgus8, Conus ambonos8
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"Lyncina theresae" = Zonaria theresae3, "Erronea (Adusta) heilprinii" = Zonaria heilprinii3, Talparia (Talparia) mariaelisabethae3, "Siphocypraea chilona" = Loxacypraea chilona3, "Cypraeorbis ballista" = Cypraeorbis willcoxi ballista3
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Rhinoclavis (Ochetoclava) chipolana6, Hemicerithium cossmanni6, Hemicerithium akriton6, Hemicerithium pagodum6, Alabina (Caloosalba) turbatrix6, Alabina (Caloosalba) boiplex6, Bittium serenum6
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Asteroidea | |
Kionaster petersonae n. sp.2
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