Ocala-Tampa Lime Rock quarry, south of Williston (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Levy County, Florida (29.4° N, 82.5° W: paleocoordinates 29.5° N, 74.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Ocala Formation, Priabonian (38.0 - 33.9 Ma)

• Ocala limestone, 30 feet below surface

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by H. Gunter, G.M. Ponton in 1928

• Repository: Florida State Geological Survey

Primary reference: M. J. Rathbun. 1929. A new crab from the Eocene of Florida. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 75:1-4 [C. Schweitzer/S. Yost/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 135780: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Samantha Yost on 08.11.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Carpiliidae
Ocalina floridana Rathbun 1929 crab