Also known as USGS Loc. 14194
Where: Olga County, Florida (26.7° N, 81.7° W: paleocoordinates 26.8° N, 81.1° 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
Collection methods: salvage,
• COLLECTOR: W.C. Mansfield, F.S. MacNeil, and C.W. Mumm (USGS). REPOSITORY: USNM. COLLECTING METHODS: From dredgings which contain a number of species of Pliocene age. Author indicates in text the taxa presumed to have been derived from the Buckingham Fm.
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 67078: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 06.11.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
"Chione ulocyma" = Lirophora (Panchione) ulocyma
"Chione ulocyma" = Lirophora (Panchione) ulocyma Dall 1895 venus clam | |
Thracia sp. Blainville 1824 clam | |
Gastropoda | |
Turritella buckinghamensis, "Turritella aff. cartagenensis" = Turritella (Broderiptella) bifastigata cartagenensis
Turritella buckinghamensis Mansfield 1939 turret shell
"Turritella aff. cartagenensis" = Turritella (Broderiptella) bifastigata cartagenensis Pilsbry and Brown 1917 turret shell |