TU 824 - Farley Creek [Chipola Fm]: Burdigalian, Florida
collected by Vokes & Vokes

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Olividae
Oliva (Omogymna) martensii Dall 1903
Drez 1981
Oliva (Omogymna) liodes (Dall 1903)
Drez 1981
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Conidae
Conus sulculus (Dall 1896)
Hoerle 1976
Conus isomatratus Dall 1896
Hoerle 1976
Conus erugatus Hoerle 1976
Hoerle 1976
Conus aneuretos Hoerle 1976
Hoerle 1976
Conus tapetus Hoerle 1976
Hoerle 1976
Conus demiurgus Dall 1903
Hoerle 1976
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Teredinidae
Kuphus incrassatus Gabb 1873
Vokes 1972
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Sportellidae
Basterotia (Basterotia) ambona Vokes 1981
Vokes 1981 1 specimen
Bivalvia - Lucinida - Lucinidae
Miltha (Miltha) chipolana (Dall 1903)
Vokes 1969
recombined as Miltha chipolana
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Rhizangiidae
Symbiangia vaughani (Weisbord 1971)
Wells 1972
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Florida County:Calhoun
Coordinates: 30.5° North, 85.2° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:30.9° North, 81.5° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
Stage:Burdigalian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 5
Key time interval:Burdigalian
Age range of interval:20.44000 - 15.98000 m.y. ago
Age estimate:18.2 Ma (Sr isotope)
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Alum Bluff Formation:Chipola
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: 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.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: unlithified calcareous marl
Secondary lithology: unlithified calcareous sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: LITHOLOGY: Marls, sands, clays, for the most part unconsolidated, in places highly calcareous. LITHIIFCATION: Unlithified, on the basis of figured specimens.
Environment:marine indet.
Geology comments: ENVIRONMENT: Not discussed in text.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original aragonite
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some genera
Collection methods:surface (in situ),field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:FLMNH,USNM
Collectors:Vokes & Vokes
Collection method comments: COLLECTOR: E. H. Vokes and H. E. Vokes. REPOSITORY: FLMNH, USNM.
Taxonomic list comments:COVERAGE: Limited to taxa described in taxonomic treatments. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication with modern nomenclature and species-resolution identifications.
Metadata
Database number:92568
Authorizer:A. Hendy Enterer:A. Hendy
Modifier:A. Hendy Research group:GCP,marine invertebrate
Created:2009-11-17 17:38:02 Last modified:2013-11-25 13:37:23
Access level:the public Released:2009-11-17 17:38:02
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
31182. E. H. Vokes and H. E. Vokes. 2000. Catalogue of Tulane University fossil localities. Unpublished notes [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/P. Wagner]

Secondary references:

31281 P. E. Drez. 1981. Olivinae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from the Alum Bluff Group of northwestern Florida. Tulane Studies in Geology and Paleontology 16(3):105-122 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]
31308 S. E. Hoerle. 1976. The genus Conus (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from the Alum Bluff Group of northwestern Florida. Tulane Studies in Geology and Paleontology 12(1):1-31 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]
31211 H. E. Vokes. 1969. Observations on the genus Miltha (Mollusca: Bivalvia) with notes on the type and the Florida Neogene species. Tulane Studies in Geology and Paleontology 7(3):93-126 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]
31267 H. E. Vokes. 1972. Notes on the fauna of the Chipola Formation - IX. On the presence of Kuphus incrassatus Gabb. Tulane Studies in Geology and Paleontology 10(1):41-46 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]
31284 H. E. Vokes. 1981. Notes on the fauna of the Chipola Formation - XXIII. On the occurrence of the genus Basterotia. Tulane Studies in Geology and Paleontology 16(3-4):157-164 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]
31263 J. W. Wells. 1972. Notes on the fauna of the Chipola Formation - V. Symbiangia, a new rhizangiid coral. Tulane Studies in Geology and Paleontology 10(1):25-27 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]