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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Crassatella inglisia clam |