Ocala Limerock Corporation Quarry: Late/Upper Eocene, Florida
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
- Palaeophiidae
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Pterosphenus schucherti
Lucas 1898
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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] |