Sam Wall Quarry: Priabonian, Florida
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Bivalvia
- Pandorida
- Clavagellidae
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Clavagella sp.
Blainville 1817
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Jones and Nicol 1989 | ||||||
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Basilosauridae
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Basilosauridae indet.
Cope 1867
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1 specimen | ||||||
| see common names | |||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Florida | County: | Alachua |
| Coordinates: | 29.9° North, 82.5° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 30.0° North, 74.8° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
Time
| Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Eocene |
| Stage: | Priabonian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 3 |
| *Period: | Middle Tertiary - Middle Tertiary | *Epoch: | Late/Upper Eocene - Late/Upper Eocene |
| Key time interval: | Priabonian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 37.71000 - 33.90000 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Ocala |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | lithified "limestone" | ||
| Includes fossils? | Y | ||
| Environment: | carbonate indet. | Tectonic setting: | passive margin |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,original phosphate |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Disassociated major elements: | all |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | surface (in situ),field collection |
| Collection size: | 1 specimens |
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 32920 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen |
| Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2003-07-18 14:07:24 | Last modified: | 2012-08-01 13:02:46 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2003-07-18 14:07:24 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 8825. | G. S. Morgan. 1978. The fossil whales of Florida. The Plaster Jacket 29:1-20 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |
Secondary references:
| 70453 | D. S. Jones and D. Nicol. 1989. Eocene Clavagellids (Mollusca: Pelecypoda) from Florida: The First Documented Occurrence in the Cenozoic of the Western Hemisphere. Journal of Paleontology 63(3):320-323 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |