CH3 - Tenmile Creek [Chipola Fm] (Miocene of the United States)

Where: Calhoun County, Florida (30.5° N, 85.2° W: paleocoordinates 30.9° N, 81.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Chipola Formation (Alum Bluff Group), Burdigalian (20.4 - 16.0 Ma)

• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: From the Chipola Fm of the Alum Bluff Gp, for which lithostratigraphic relationships are not discussed. AGE: late Early Miocene, on the basis of macro fossil biostratigraphy; direct date from 87Sr/86Sr isotope dating of fossils from elsewhere in Chipola Fm [=Burdigalian age]. STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From unknown position within formation.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; sandstone

• 4 feet of weathered brown fossiliferous sand lying on a weathered limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: N. E. Weisbord. 1971. Corals from the Chipola and Jackson Bluff Formations of Florida. Geological Bulletin State of Florida Department of Natural Resources Division of Interior Resources Bureau of Geology 53:1-105 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 123555: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 25.01.2012

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Taxonomic list

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Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Poritidae
Goniopora calhounensis n. sp., Porites chipolanum
Goniopora calhounensis n. sp. Weisbord 1971 stony coral
Porites chipolanum Weisbord 1971 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Trachyphylliidae
Antillophyllia chipolana
Antillophyllia chipolana Weisbord 1971 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Flabellidae
Flabellum chipolanum n. sp.
Flabellum chipolanum n. sp. Weisbord 1971 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Montastraeidae
Montastrea cavernosa
Montastrea cavernosa Linne 1767 stony coral