TU 709 - Tenmile Creek [Chipola Fm] (Miocene of the United States)

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

• ENVIRONMENT: Not discussed in text.
• LITHOLOGY: Marls, sands, clays, for the most part unconsolidated, in places highly calcareous. LITHIIFCATION: Unlithified, on the basis of figured specimens.

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 Unpublished notes [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/P. Wagner]more details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 92542: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 17.11.2009

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Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Limited to taxa described in taxonomic treatments. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication with modern nomenclature and species-resolution identifications.
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Gastropoda
 Neogastropoda - Muricidae
Poirieria (Panamurex) fusinoides4, Poirieria (Panamurex) laccopoia4, Chicoreus (Chicoreus) elusivus5, Haustellum gilli6, Siphonochelus (Laevityphis) linguiferus2
Poirieria (Panamurex) fusinoides4 Gardner 1947 murex snail
Poirieria (Panamurex) laccopoia4 Gardner 1947 murex snail
Chicoreus (Chicoreus) elusivus5 Vokes 1974 murex snail
Haustellum gilli6 murex snail
 Neogastropoda - Olividae
Oliva (Omogymna) liodes1
Oliva (Omogymna) liodes1 Dall 1903 olive snail
 Neogastropoda - Conidae
Conus sulculus3, Conus chipolanus3
Conus sulculus3 Dall 1896 cone shell
Conus chipolanus3 Dall 1896 cone shell
1Drez 1981; 2Gertman 1969; 3Hoerle 1976; 4Vokes 1970; 5Vokes 1974; 6Vokes 1990