Where: Calhoun County, Florida (30.5° N, 85.2° W: paleocoordinates 30.9° 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 Unpublished notes [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/P. Wagner]more details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 92550: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 17.11.2009, edited by Pete Wagner
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Alabina (Caloosalba) turbatrix5, Alabina (Caloosalba) boiplex5, Rhinoclavis (Ochetoclava) chipolana5, Hemicerithium cossmanni5, Hemicerithium akriton n. sp.5
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Conus gardnerae6, "Conus cracens" = Conus sauridens6, Conus chipolanus6, Conus demiurgus6, Conus aneuretos6, Conus tapetus6, Conus isomatratus6, Conus erugatus6, Conus sulculus6
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Dermomurex (Trialatella) farleyensis15, Typhis (Rugotyphis) keenae4, Poirieria (Panamurex) mauryae10, Chicoreus (Chicoreus) elusivus14, Hexaplex (Hexaplex) veatchi7, "Typhis (Talityphis) obesus" = Typhina obesa4
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"Zoila willcoxi" = Cypraeorbis willcoxi2, "Zoila arlettae n. sp." = Cypraeorbis arlettae2, "Mauritia (Mauritia) campbelliana" = Luria campbelliana2, Trona leporina2
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"Arcopagia (Johnsonella) fausta" = Arcopagia fausta11
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