FLe-1 (Crystal River): Priabonian, Florida

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Gigantostrea trigonalis (Conrad 1854)
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Amussium ocalanum
8 specimens
corrected as Amusium
originally entered as "Amusium ocalanum"
Chlamys spillmani
1 specimen
Chlamys spillmani
1 specimen
"spillmani "vars." - originally entered as "Chlamys spillmani "vars."
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Acteonidae
Lithophysema sp. Stewart 1926
1 specimen
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Florida County:Levy
Coordinates: 29.4° North, 82.4° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:29.5° North, 74.8° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Eocene
Stage:Priabonian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 3
*Period:Tertiary *Local age/stage:Ludian
Key time interval:Priabonian
Age range of interval:37.71000 - 33.90000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Crystal River Limestone
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: supposedly "Ludian"; stage assignment based on Baum et al. 1994; Section FLe-1
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "carbonate"
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Metadata
Database number:3572
Authorizer:M. Patzkowsky Enterer:K. Layou
Modifier:J. Sessa Research group:GCP,marine invertebrate
Created:1999-08-05 06:45:37 Last modified:2010-08-10 17:11:02
Access level:the public Released:1999-08-05 06:45:37
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

124. L. D. Toulmin. 1977. Stratigraphic Distribution of Paleocene and Eocene Fossils in the Eastern Gulf Coast Region. Geological Survey of Alabama, Monograph 13(1):1-602 [M. Patzkowsky/K. Layou/P. Mannion]