Highway 84 bridge, Tenmile Creek: Burdigalian, Florida
collected by C.C. Branson 1944

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda - Nautilida - Aturiidae
Aturia sp. Bronn 1838
Miller and Downs 1950
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:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Lower 10 feet of the Chipola Formation
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:green unlithified sandy,calcareous claystone
Lithology description: Green calcareous sandy clay
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
Collectors:C.C. Branson Collection dates:1944
Collection method comments: Repository: University of Missouri
Metadata
Database number:180412
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2016-07-16 09:41:09 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2016-07-16 09:41:09
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
27587. A. K. Miller. 1947. Tertiary nautiloids of the Americas. Geological Society of America Memoir 23:1-234 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]

Secondary references:

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]