Where: Citrus County, Florida (29.0° N, 82.7° W: paleocoordinates 29.1° N, 75.1° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• hand sample-level geographic resolution
When: Periarchus zone, Lower Ocala Limestone Member (Ocala Limestone Formation), Late/Upper Eocene (37.2 - 33.9 Ma)
• Bed 2, Periarchus Zone, Lower Ocala Limestone, upper Eocene.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified grainstone
Preservation: cast
Reposited in the FMNH
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
Primary reference: D. B. Blake and R. W. Portell. 2009. Implications for the study of fossil Asteroidea (Echinodermata) of new genera and species from the Eocene of Florida. Journal of Paleontology 83(4):562-574 [L. Villier/L. Villier]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 91143: authorized by Loic Villier, entered by Loic Villier on 07.09.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Asteroidea | |
Ocalaster timucum n. gen. n. sp., Ocalaster seloyi n. gen. n. sp.
Ocalaster timucum n. gen. n. sp. Blake and Portell 2009 sea star
Ocalaster seloyi n. gen. n. sp. Blake and Portell 2009 sea star |