Johnson's Lime Sink: Late/Upper Eocene, Florida

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea - Clypeasteroida - Oligopygidae
Oligopygus haldermani (Conrad 1850)
Echinoidea - Spatangoida - Schizasteridae
Schizaster floridanus n. sp. Clark and Twitchell 1915
Echinoidea - Spatangoida - Brissidae
Eupatagus floridanus n. sp. Clark and Twitchell 1915
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Florida County:Levy
Coordinates: 29.4° North, 82.5° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:29.5° North, 74.8° West
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Eocene
Stage:Priabonian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 3
Key time interval:Late/Upper Eocene
Age range of interval:37.71000 - 33.90000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Ocala
Stratigraphy comments: said to be Oligocene, but the Ocala LS is now thought to be Eocene
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:203472
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2019-08-16 18:59:58 Last modified:2019-08-16 18:59:58
Access level:the public Released:2019-08-16 18:59:58
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
16640. W. B. Clark and M. W. Twitchell. 1915. The Mesozoic and Cenozoic Echinodermata of the United States. United States Geological Survey Bulletin 54:1-341 [L. Villier/J. Millet/M. Uhen]