Semele chipolana

Geological Range

Early Miocene to Middle Miocene; Extinct.

Paleogeographic Distribution

Northern Florida to Georgia.

Remarks

Original Description (from Dall, 1898, p. 986-987):

"Upper or Chipolan Oligocene at the base of Alum Bluff, Florida, also at Bailey's Ferry (now the county bridge) and McClellan's farm, on the Chipola River, Calhoun County, and in the Oak Grove sands at Oak Grove, Santa Rosa County, Florida.

Shell large, solid, rather inflated, nearly equilateral, slightly inequivalve; beaks low, adjacent; anterior end longer, sloping above, rounded in front and below into the arcuate base; posterior end high, bluntly rounded, subtruncate near the base, the posterior flexure feeble; escutcheon long and narrow, lunule wider, elongate, both chiefly impressed on the dorsal edge of the left valve; sculpture of regularly spaced, numerous low, sharp, thin concentric lamellae, with wider, microscopically radially striate interspaces; there are about fifteen lamellae to the centimeter; hinge and other internal characters normal. Alt. 46, lat. 54, diam. 21 mm.

This fine shell is not unlike the Pliocene S. Leana, but the sculpture in the latter is coarser and more prominent and the valves thinner and flatter."

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Stratigraphic Occurrences

Middle Miocene

Coosawhatchie Formation (Charlton Member) (GA)

Early Miocene

Chipola Formation (N. FL)