Florida Lime quarry, SW city limits of Ocala (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Florida (29.2° N, 82.1° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 31.9° N, 67.3° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Ocala Formation, Priabonian (37.7 - 33.9 Ma)

• No stratigraphic unit, but almost certainly from Ocala Limestone

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by S. Phillips in 1917; reposited in the USNM

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 135782: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Samantha Yost on 08.11.2012

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Taxonomic list

Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Carpiliidae
Ocalina floridana n. sp. Rathbun 1929 crab