Also known as Mansfield Loc. 46
Where: Columbia County, Florida (30.3° N, 82.8° W: paleocoordinates 30.4° N, 76.4° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Suwannee Limestone Formation (Vicksburg Group), Rupelian (33.9 - 28.1 Ma)
• Cunningham et al. (1998) identified Suwannee LS as Early Oligocene age. Cooke and Mansfield (1936) assigned Suwannee to Vicksburg group. Suwannee assigned to Rupelian Stage (early Oligocene) by Brewster-Wingard et al. (1987) and COSUNA (1988).
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lithified, white limestone
Primary reference: W. C. Mansfield. 1937. Molluscs of the Tampa and Suwannee Limestones. Geological Bulletin, State of Florida Department of Conservation 15:1-334 [A. Miller/C. Ferguson/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 60677: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Chad Ferguson on 19.05.2006, edited by Austin Hendy
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Taxonomic list
Echinoidea | |
Rhyncholampas gouldii Bouvé 1846 sea urchin | |
Bivalvia | |
Phacoides ? hillsboroensis Heilprin 1887 clam
Phacoides wacissanus Dall 1915 clam | |
Cardium brooksvillensis cockle | |
"Chione aff. bainbridgensis" = Chione (Chionopsis) bainbridgensis
"Chione aff. bainbridgensis" = Chione (Chionopsis) bainbridgensis Dall 1916 venus clam | |
Modiolus grammatus Dall 1898 mussel | |
Glycymeris suwannensis Mansfield 1937 clam | |
Scaphopoda | |
Dentalium ladinum tusk shell | |
Gastropoda | |
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Ampullina flintensis snail | |
Scaphander sp. Monfort 1810 snail | |
Calliostoma silicatum top snail |