M 48 - Withlacoochee River [Inglis Limestone] (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Levy County, Florida (29.0° N, 82.6° W: paleocoordinates 29.1° N, 75.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Inglis Limestone Formation (Ocala Group), Priabonian (38.0 - 33.9 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Inglis Fm of the Ocala Group, which is overlain by the Williston Limestone, and overlies the Avon Park Limestone; originally proposed as Inglis Member of Moodys Branch Fm by Vernon (1951). AGE: Priabonian. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Unknown position within formation.

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: mesofossils

Primary reference: K. V. Palmer and D. C. Brann. 1965. Catalogue of the Paleocene and Eocene mollusca of the southern and eastern United States. Part 1. Pelecypoda, Amphineura, Peteropoda, Scaphopoda and Cephalopoda. Bulletins of American Paleontology 48:1-471 [M. Kosnik/M. Kosnik/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 92252: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Laurie Eccles on 04.11.2009

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Carditida - Crassatellidae
Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Xenophoridae
Xenophora "sp. I" Fischer von Waldheim 1807 carrier shell