Where: Levy County, Florida (29.0° N, 82.6° W: paleocoordinates 29.1° N, 75.0° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Inglis Limestone Formation (Ocala Group), Priabonian (38.0 - 33.9 Ma)
• 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: Unknown position within formation.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; poorly lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the FLMNH
Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ),
• COLLECTOR: Unknown. REPOSITORY: Formerly at Florida Geological Survey; likely now at Florida Museum of Natural History (FLMNH).
Primary reference: 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]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 41474: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 15.07.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
? Tectariopsis avonensis n. sp.
? Tectariopsis avonensis n. sp. snail | |
"Velates floridanus" = Velates perversus
"Velates floridanus" = Velates perversus Gmelin 1791 snail | |
Bellatara americana cerith snail
Bellatara floridana n. sp. cerith snail | |
Turritella fischeri turret shell | |
"Pseudocrommium brucei" = Pachycrommium
"Pseudocrommium brucei" = Pachycrommium snail | |
Xenophora sp. Fischer von Waldheim 1807 carrier shell | |
Bivalvia | |
Ostrea falco oyster | |
Corbula densata Conrad 1854 clam | |
Crassatella inglisia clam | |
Tubothalamea | |
Miliolidae indet. Ehrenberg 1839 |