Sun Oil No. 1 J. H. Tillis Borehole (Devonian of the United States)

Where: Suwanee County, Florida (30.3° N, 83.8° W: paleocoordinates 66.8° S, 33.4° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Lochkovian (419.2 - 410.8 Ma)

• Unnamed formation. Lochkovian? Text suggests Upper Silurian.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marginal marine; black shale

• "Shallow water, marine. A BA1-2 assignment is reasonable."
• "black shale"

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: E.N. Kjellesvig-Waering. 1950. A new Silurian eurypterid from Florida. Journal of Paleontology 24(2):229-231 [R. Plotnick/R. Plotnick]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 26878: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 06.11.2002

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
  -
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
Bivalvia
  -
"Pelecypoda indet." = Bivalvia
"Pelecypoda indet." = Bivalvia Linnaeus 1758 clam
 Lophophorata -
Tentaculitida indet. Ljaschenko 1955
Euchelicerata
 Eurypterida - Pterygotidae
Pterygotus floridanus Kjellesvig-Waering 1950 eurypterid
Deuteropoda
  -
Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802 ostracod
smooth form
Ostracoda
 Beyrichicopida - Bolliidae
Bolliidae indet. Boucek 1936 ostracod
bollid ostracode