page_title: Choctaw Sea
section_title: Location
hierarchical_section_title: Choctaw Sea / Location
caption_attribution_description: English: Depiction of Orange Island during the Eocene through early Miocene. Origin: Edward J. Petuch, Charles Roberts
context_page_description: The Choctaw Sea was a Cenozoic eutropical subsea, which along with the Okeechobean Sea, occupied the eastern Gulf of Mexico basin system bounding Florida.
context_section_description: The Choctaw Sea was named for the Choctaw or Choctawhatchee River of northern Oligocene Florida. It occupied most of the Florida Panhandle including the river deltas of the Choctawhatchee River, Apalachicola River, and Ochlockonee River. At its maximum coverage it encompassed an area as far north as the city of Bainbridge in Southwest Georgia and as far to the southeast as Taylor County, Florida, United States.
  The Choctaw Sea was divided further into two groups of three subseas based upon marine fauna. These subseas were named: 
  Bainbridge Subsea
  Chattahoochie Subsea
  Chipola Subsea
  Walton Subsea
  Alaqua Subsea
  Jackson Subsea
caption: Depiction of Oligocene Orange Island which was the first emerging landmass.
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