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.
• formation-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 Unpublished notes [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/P. Wagner]more details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 92460: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 13.11.2009, edited by Pete Wagner
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Neritopsis vokesorum n. sp.5
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Alabina (Caloosalba) boiplex4, Alabina (Caloosalba) turbatrix4, Bittium serenum4, Rhinoclavis (Ochetoclava) chipolana4, Hemicerithium pagodum4, Hemicerithium cossmanni4, Hemicerithium akriton4
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Concholepas drezi10, Hexaplex veatchi19, Typhis (Rugotyphis) keenae3, Murexiella (Murexiella) calhounensis n. sp.7, Pterynotus (Pterynotus) hoerlei9, Dermomurex (Dermomurex) matercula15, Chicoreus (Chicoreus) elusivus13, Haustellum gilli19, Poirieria (Panamurex) lychnia9, Poirieria (Panamurex) mauryae9
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"Erato chipolana n. sp." = Hespererato chipolana1
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"Miltha (Miltha) chipolana" = Miltha chipolana8
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Rhynchonellata | |