Earth:Penney Farms Formation
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Short description: Geological formation in Florida
| Penney Farms Formation | |
|---|---|
| Type | Geological formation |
| Location | |
| Region |  Florida |
| Country |  United States |
The Penney Farms Formation is a geologic formation in Florida. It preserves fossils from the early Miocene.[1]
Fossil content
Invertebrates
| Crustaceans | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Genus | Species | Presence | Material | Notes | Images |
| Balanus | B. reflexus | Osceola National Forest, Columbia County, Florida.[2] | 4 scuta, 1 tergum, 2 shells.[2] | A balanid barnacle also found in the Parachucla Formation. | |
| Concavus | C. crassostricola | Osceola National Forest, Columbia County, Florida.[2] | 2 scuta, 4 compartmental plates.[2] | A balanid barnacle also found in the Parachucla Formation. | |
| Solidobalanus | S. sp. indet. | Osceola National Forest, Columbia County, Florida.[2] | One scutum, 6 compartmental plates.[2] | An archaeobalanid barnacle also found in the Parachucla Formation. | |
See also
- List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Florida
References
- ↑ "Geologic Unit: Penney Farms". https://ngmdb.usgs.gov/Geolex/UnitRefs/PenneyFarmsRefs_3236.html.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 Zullo, Victor A.; Portell, Roger W. (1991). "Balanoid Barnacles from the Early Miocene Parachucla and Penney Farms Formations, Northern Florida" (in en). Tulane Studies in Geology and Paleontology 24 (4). https://journals.tulane.edu/tsgp/article/view/859.
- ((Various Contributors to the Paleobiology Database)). "Fossilworks: Gateway to the Paleobiology Database". http://www.fossilworks.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?action=home.
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