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 Unpublished notes [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/P. Wagner]more details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 92513: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 17.11.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Conus chipolanus5, Conus sulculus5, Conus isomatratus5, Conus tricoratus5, Conus rapunculus5, Conus vegrandis5, Conus gardnerae5, "Conus cracens n. sp." = Conus sauridens5
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Chicoreus (Siratus) chipolanus9, Chicoreus (Siratus) juliagardnerae9, Chicoreus (Chicoreus) elusivus10, "Chicoreus (Chicoreus) cornurectus" = Chicoreus (Triplex) cornurectus6, Poirieria (Panamurex) fusinoides8, Poirieria (Panamurex) laccopoia8, Poirieria (Panamurex) mauryae8, Haustellum gilli12, Siphonochelus (Laevityphis) linguiferus3, "Typhis (Talityphis) obesus" = Typhina obesa3
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Alabina (Caloosalba) turbatrix4, Alabina (Caloosalba) boiplex4, Rhinoclavis (Ochetoclava) chipolana4, Bittium serenum4, Hemicerithium cossmanni4
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"Miltha (Miltha) chipolana" = Miltha chipolana7
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