FJa-1 (Crystal River): Priabonian, Florida

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Cassidulus conradi Couper 1850
34 specimens
Arthropoda indet. Latreille 1829
1 specimen
crab carapace
Malacostraca - Decapoda - Raninidae
Lophoranina georgiana (Rathbun 1935)
2 specimens
original and current combination Ranina georgiana
Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida - Cancellothyrididae
Terebratulina lachryma (Morton 1833)
5 specimens
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Spondylidae
Spondylus hollisteri
23 specimens
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Chlamys clinchfieldensis
12 specimens
Chlamys spillmani clinchfieldensis
Amussium ocalanum
113 specimens
corrected as Amusium
originally entered as "Amusium ocalanum"
unclassified
Vertebrata indet. Lamarck 1801
1 specimen
shark tooth
Echinoidea - Clypeasteroida - Neolaganidae
Weisbordella cubae
2 specimens
Weisbordella johnsoni
34 specimens
Echinoidea - Clypeasteroida - Oligopygidae
Oligopygus haldemani (Conrad 1850)
79 specimens
recombined as Oligopygus haldermani
Echinoidea - Clypeasteroida - Faujasiidae
Cassidulus lyelli (Conrad 1850)
12 specimens
recombined as Cassidulus (Paralampas) lyelli
Cassidulus conradi lyelli
Echinoidea - Clypeasteroida - Clypeasteridae
cf. Clypeaster oxybaphon Jackson 1922
1 specimen
originally entered as "Clypeaster cf. C. oxybaphon"
Echinoidea - Cassiduloida - Neolampadidae
Eurhodia patelliformis (Bouvé 1851)
2 specimens
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Florida County:Jackson
Coordinates: 30.8° North, 85.2° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:31.1° North, 77.5° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Eocene
Stage:Priabonian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 3
*Period:Tertiary *Local age/stage:Ludian
Key time interval:Priabonian
Age range of interval:37.71000 - 33.90000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Crystal River Limestone
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: supposedly "Ludian"; stage assignment based on Baum et al. 1994; Section FJa-1
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "carbonate"
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Metadata
Database number:3569
Authorizer:M. Patzkowsky Enterer:K. Layou
Modifier:J. Sessa Research group:GCP,marine invertebrate
Created:1999-08-05 06:22:41 Last modified:2010-08-10 17:08:42
Access level:the public Released:1999-08-05 06:22:41
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

124. L. D. Toulmin. 1977. Stratigraphic Distribution of Paleocene and Eocene Fossils in the Eastern Gulf Coast Region. Geological Survey of Alabama, Monograph 13(1):1-602 [M. Patzkowsky/K. Layou/P. Mannion]