Where: Citrus County, Florida (28.9° N, 82.5° W: paleocoordinates 29.0° N, 74.9° 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.
• bed-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 99194: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Laurie Eccles on 02.11.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Falsilyria citrusensis volute
Athleta arangius volute | |
Laevella floridana true conch | |
"Tugurium grayi" = Onustus
"Tugurium grayi" = Onustus carrier shell | |
"Pseudocrommium brucei" = Pachycrommium, Ampullinopsis citrinensis
"Pseudocrommium brucei" = Pachycrommium snail | |
"Bellatara" citrana cerith snail | |
Bivalvia | |
"Miltha (? Eomiltha) megameris" = Superlucina megameris, Lucina "sp. B"
"Miltha (? Eomiltha) megameris" = Superlucina megameris Dall 1901 clam
Lucina "sp. B" Bruguière 1797 clam | |
Crassatella "sp. L" Lamarck 1799 clam |