Also known as Location D
Where: Lee County, Florida (26.7° N, 81.6° W: paleocoordinates 26.8° N, 81.0° W)
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Buckingham Member (Tamiami Formation), Late/Upper Pliocene (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: Overlain by the Tamiami Fm (Late Pliocene) and the Caloosahatchee Fm (Late Pliocene). THICKNESS: Formation and collected strata of unknown thickness. AGE: Late Miocene in text based on macrofossil biostratigraphy; revised by Petuch and Roberts (2007) to be Late Pliocene. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within unit.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lithified, phosphatic, sandy, calcareous limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression, original calcite
Reposited in the USNM
• COLLECTOR: W.C. Mansfield, F.S. MacNeil, and C.W. Mumm (USGS). REPOSITORY: USNM.
Primary reference: W. C. Mansfield. 1939. Notes on the upper Tertiary and Pleistocene mollusks of Peninsula Florida. Florida State Geological Survey Geological Bulletin 18:1-69 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 67075: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 06.11.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
"Turritella aff. cartagenensis" = Turritella (Broderiptella) bifastigata cartagenensis
"Turritella aff. cartagenensis" = Turritella (Broderiptella) bifastigata cartagenensis Pilsbry and Brown 1917 turret shell | |
Bivalvia | |
Nuculana sp. Link 1807 pointed nut clam | |
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Anomia simplex d'Orbigny 1845 jingle | |
Ostrea disparilis oyster | |
"Arca (Cunearca) scalaris" = Cunearca scalaris
"Arca (Cunearca) scalaris" = Cunearca scalaris Conrad 1844 ark |