M 320 (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Levy County, Florida (29.4° N, 82.6° W: paleocoordinates 29.7° N, 74.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Avon Park Limestone Formation (Claiborne and Ocala Group), Bartonian (41.3 - 38.0 Ma)

• lower Ocala gr.

• member-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 99197: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Laurie Eccles on 02.11.2010

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Carditida - Crassatellidae