Ocala Limerock Corporation Quarry: Late/Upper Eocene, Florida

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Palaeophiidae
Pterosphenus schucherti Lucas 1898
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Florida County:Alachua
Coordinates: 29.7° North, 82.6° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:29.8° North, 75.0° 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:Early/Lower Tertiary *Epoch:Late/Upper Eocene
Key time interval:Late/Upper Eocene Zone: Lepidocyclina-Pseudophragmina
Age range of interval:37.20000 - 33.90000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Crystal River
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "limestone"
Environment:offshore indet.
Geology comments: "carbonate platform... full marine... shallow seas"
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Articulated whole bodies:none
Associated major elements:none
Disassociated major elements:none
Disassociated minor elements:some
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ),field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: found in the wall of a quarry
Metadata
Database number:27641
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Modifier:J. Alroy Research group:vertebrate
Created:2002-12-16 14:20:50 Last modified:2002-12-16 16:21:03
Access level:the public Released:2002-12-16 14:20:50
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

7608. J. H. Hutchison. 1985. Pterosphenus cf. P. schucherti Lucas (Squamata, Palaeophidae) from the Late Eocene of peninsular Florida. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 5(1):20-23 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]