FGS L-139 (Bed 4) - Withlacoochee River [Inglis Limestone]: Priabonian, Florida
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda
- Diastomatidae
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Diastoma sp.
Deshayes 1850
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Gastropoda
- Ampullinidae
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Pseudocrommium brucei
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Ampullinopsis citrinensis
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Bivalvia
- Lucinida
- Lucinidae
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Fimbria vernoni
Richards 1953
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Psammobiidae
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Gari jacksonense
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Bivalvia
- Carditida
- Carditidae
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Venericardia withlacoochensis
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Bivalvia
- Arcida
- Glycymerididae
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Glycymeris lisbonensis
Harris 1919
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Echinoidea
- Spatangoida
- Brissidae
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Eupatagus mooreanus
Pilsbry 1914
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Echinoidea
- Cassiduloida
- Cassidulidae
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Cassidulus ericsoni
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Cassidulus globosus
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Echinoidea
- Clypeasteroida
- Protoscutellidae
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Periarchus lyelli
(Conrad 1834)
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Periarchus lyelli floridanus | ||||||||||
Tubothalamea
- Miliolida
- Peneroplidae
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Peneroplidae indet.
Renss 1860
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Tubothalamea
- Miliolida
- Miliolidae
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Miliolidae indet.
Ehrenberg 1839
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Valvulinidae
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Lituonella sp.
Schlumberger and Douvillé 1905
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Coskinolina sp.
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Orbitolinidae
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Dictyoconus sp.
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see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | Florida | County: | Levy |
Coordinates: | 29.0° North, 82.6° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 29.1° North, 75.0° West | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Eocene |
Stage: | Priabonian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 3 |
Key time interval: | Priabonian | ||
Age range of interval: | 37.71 - 33.9 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Geological group: | Ocala | Formation: | Inglis Limestone | ||
Local section: | L-139 | Local bed: | Bed 4 | ||
Local order: | bottom to top | ||||
Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Inglis Fm of the Ocala Group, which is overlain by the Williston Limestone, and overlies the Avon Park Limestone; originally proposed as Inglis Member of Moodys Branch Fm by Vernon (1951). AGE: Priabonian; Moodys Branch=Bartonian (JAS 14 October 2010); emended to Priabonian as no longer placed in Moodys Branch Fm (AJWH 15 August 2014). STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: fossils are from Bed 4 of section described by Vernon (1951) (FGS Bulletin 33). |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | fine lithified dolomite | ||
Secondary lithology: | concretionary,dolomitic,brown,gray lithified "limestone" | ||
Includes fossils? | Y | ||
Includes fossils? | Y | ||
Lithology description: tan, soft, finely crystalline, massive dolomite containing pebbles of laminated dolomite and abundant nodular concretions of hard, brown to gray, crystalline, dolomitic limestone | |||
Environment: | marine indet. | Tectonic setting: | passive margin |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body,replaced with dolomite |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes: | some microfossils |
Collection methods: | surface (float),surface (in situ),field collection |
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Museum repositories: | FLMNH |
Collection method comments: COLLECTOR: Unknown. REPOSITORY: Formerly at Florida Geological Survey; likely now at Florida Museum of Natural History (FLMNH). |
Metadata
Database number: | 41475 | ||
Authorizer: | A. Miller | Enterer: | K. Layou |
Modifier: | A. Hendy | Research group: | GCP,marine invertebrate |
Created: | 2004-07-15 07:55:13 | Last modified: | 2014-08-15 10:33:51 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2004-07-15 07:55:13 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
11115. | H. G. Richards and K.V.W. Palmer. 1953. Eocene Mollusks from Citrus and Levy Counties, Florida. Florida Geological Survey Geological Bulletin (35) [A. Miller/K. Layou/K. Layou] |