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)
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Gastropoda | |
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
"Pelecypoda indet." = Bivalvia
"Pelecypoda indet." = Bivalvia Linnaeus 1758 clam | |
Tentaculitida indet. Ljaschenko 1955 | |
Euchelicerata | |
Pterygotus floridanus Kjellesvig-Waering 1950 eurypterid | |
Deuteropoda | |
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Ostracoda | |
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