FLa-2 (Crystal River): Priabonian, Florida

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostrea podogrina
1 specimen
    = Ostrea podagrina Dall 1895
Palmer and Brann 1965
recombined as Ostrea (Ostrea) podagrina
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Chlamys spillmani
1 specimen
"spillmani "vars." - originally entered as "Chlamys spillmani "vars."
Amussium ocalanum
8 specimens
corrected as Amusium
originally entered as "Amusium ocalanum"
Echinoidea - Echinoneoida - Echinoneidae
Amblypygus americanus Desor 1858
1 specimen
Echinoidea - Clypeasteroida - Oligopygidae
Oligopygus wetherby
7 specimens
Echinoidea - Spatangoida - Brissidae
Plagiobrissus dixie Cooke 1942
1 specimen
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Florida County:Lafayette
Coordinates: 30.1° North, 83.2° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:30.2° North, 75.5° West
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
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:38.00000 - 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 FLa-2
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:3571
Authorizer:M. Patzkowsky, A. Hendy Enterer:K. Layou, A. Hendy
Modifier:J. Sessa Research group:GCP,marine invertebrate
Created:1999-08-05 06:40:49 Last modified:2010-08-10 17:10:16
Access level:the public Released:1999-08-05 06:40:49
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]

Secondary references:

11845 K. V. Palmer and D. C. Brann. 1965. Catalogue of the Paleocene and Eocene mollusca of the southern and eastern United States. Part 1. Pelecypoda, Amphineura, Peteropoda, Scaphopoda and Cephalopoda. Bulletins of American Paleontology 48:1-471 [M. Kosnik/M. Kosnik/J. Alroy]