Ten Mile Creek, Chipola River: Burdigalian, Florida
collected by C.R. Locklin
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Cephalopoda
- Nautilida
- Aturiidae
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| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Florida | County: | Calhoun |
| Coordinates: | 30.5° North, 85.2° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 33.1° North, 77.8° West (Wright 2013) | ||||
| 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: | 20.45 - 15.98 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Chipola | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: lower part of the Miocene Chipola formation | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | unlithified sandy,calcareous claystone |
| Environment: | lagoonal |
| Geology comments: According to Vokes (1989), the beds are considered to be shallower in origin than those on the river, but in very quiet water, perhaps lagoonal. | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | USNM |
| Collectors: | C.R. Locklin |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Tenmile Creek | ||
| Database number: | 180411 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Clapham | Enterer: | M. Clapham |
| Modifier: | M. Clapham | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2016-07-16 09:33:39 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2016-07-16 09:33:39 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 59868. | A. K. Miller and H. R. Downs. 1950. Tertiary nautiloids of the Americas: supplement. Journal of Paleontology 24:1-18 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham] |