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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Crassatella inglisia clam | |
Gastropoda | |
Xenophora "sp. I" Fischer von Waldheim 1807 carrier shell |