Also known as Reef 3909
Where: Sarasota County, Florida (27.3° N, 82.5° W: paleocoordinates 27.4° N, 81.8° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Pinecrest Member (Tamiami Formation), Late/Upper Pliocene (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified limestone and lithified, shelly/skeletal sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: peel or thin section,
Primary reference: N. E. Weisbord. 1974. Late Cenozoic corals of south Florida. Bulletins of American Paleontology 66(285):259-544 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 85448: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 19.12.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Anthozoa | |
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Septastrea marylandica Conrad 1841 stony coral
Astrangia leonensis Weisbord 1971 stony coral | |
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Solenastrea hyades Dana 1846 stony coral
Solenastrea bournoni Milne-Edwards and Haime 1849 stony coral | |
Diploria sarasotana n. sp., ? Isophyllia desotoensis n. sp.
Diploria sarasotana n. sp. Weisbord 1974 stony coral
? Isophyllia desotoensis n. sp. Weisbord 1974 stony coral | |
Oculina sarasotana n. sp.
Oculina sarasotana n. sp. Weisbord 1971 stony coral | |
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Siderastrea dalli Vaughan 1919 stony coral
Siderastrea pliocenica Vaughan 1919 stony coral | |
| Gastropoda | |
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Murex globosus murex snail | |
"Cancellaria propevenusta" = Massyla propevenusta
"Cancellaria propevenusta" = Massyla propevenusta Mansfield 1930 snail | |
Conus sp., "Conus adversarius" = Conus (Contraconus) adversarius
Conus sp. Linnaeus 1758 cone shell
"Conus adversarius" = Conus (Contraconus) adversarius Conrad 1840 cone shell | |
| Bivalvia | |
"Ostrea haitensis" = Hyotissa haitensis
"Ostrea haitensis" = Hyotissa haitensis Sowerby 1850 oyster | |
Pecten sp., "Pecten eboreus" = Carolinapecten eboreus
Pecten sp. Müller 1776 scallop | |