Where: Glades County, Florida (26.8° N, 81.4° W: paleocoordinates 26.8° N, 81.4° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Fort Thompson Formation, Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From Fort Thompson Fm. AGE: Assigned to Late Pleistocene (A. Hendy, 2007). STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Unknown position within formation. According to collection notes, in addition to belonging to Fort Thompson Fm, the collection is from the "3rd interglacial".
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified, shelly/skeletal siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: original aragonite, original calcite
Reposited in the YPM
Collection methods: bulk, sieve,
• COLLECTOR: C.O. Dunbar, 1965. REPOSITORY: YPM.
Primary reference: A. J. W. Hendy, D. P. Buick, K. V. Bulinski, C. A. Ferguson, and A. I. Miller. 2008. Unpublished census data from Atlantic coastal plain and circum-Caribbean Neogene assemblages and taxonomic opinions. [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 69034: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 15.02.2007, edited by Kate Bulinski
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Turbo (Taeniaturbo) sp. Woodring 1928 snail | |
Fissurella sp. Bruguière 1789 snail | |
Crepidula fornicula slipper shell
Crepidula plana Say 1822 slipper shell | |
Turritella sp. Lamarck 1799 turret shell | |
Cerithium eburneum Bruguière 1792 cerith snail | |
Eupleura caudata Say 1822 murex snail
Typhinellus floridonus murex snail
Coralliophila sp. Adams and Adams 1853 murex snail | |
Marginella sp. Lamarck 1799 margin shell | |
Cantharus sp. Röding 1798 true whelk | |
"Nassarius (Nassarius) vibex" = Nassarius vibex
"Nassarius (Nassarius) vibex" = Nassarius vibex Say 1822 snail | |
Busycon contrarium Conrad 1840 whelk | |
Latirus sp. Monfort 1810 snail | |
Conus jaspideus Gmelin 1791 cone shell | |
Splendrillia sp. Hedley 1922 snail | |
Naticarius camera moon snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Carditamera floridana Conrad 1838 clam
Pleuromeris tridentata Say 1826 clam | |
Radiolucina arrionta clam | |
Caryocorbula contracta Say 1822 clam | |
Cyrenoida floridana clam | |
Globivenus rugatina, "Anomalocardia auberiana" = Anomalocardia cuneimeris, Chione cancellata, Gemma gemma
Globivenus rugatina Heilprin 1886 venus clam
"Anomalocardia auberiana" = Anomalocardia cuneimeris Conrad 1846 venus clam
Chione cancellata Linnaeus 1767 venus clam
Gemma gemma Totten 1834 venus clam | |
Mactridae indet. Lamarck 1809 clam
Mulinia sapotilia clam
Rangia cuneata Sowerby 1831 clam
Mactrotoma fragilis Gmelin 1792 surfclam | |
Chama congregata Conrad 1833 jewel box
Arcinella cornuta Conrad 1866 jewel box | |
"Laevicardium laevigatum" = Laevicardium serratum, "Trachycardium muricatum" = Trachycardium (Dallocardia) muricatum
"Laevicardium laevigatum" = Laevicardium serratum Linnaeus 1758 cockle
"Trachycardium muricatum" = Trachycardium (Dallocardia) muricatum Linnaeus 1758 cockle | |
Semele bellastriata Conrad 1837 clam
Abra aequalis Say 1822 abra | |
"Moerella sp." = Tellina (Moerella)
"Moerella sp." = Tellina (Moerella) Fischer 1887 tellin clam | |
Modiolus sp. Lamarck 1801 mussel | |
Tucetona pectinata Gmelin 1791 clam | |
Arcopsis adamsi Dall 1886 clam | |
"Anadara transversa" = Anadara (Larkinia) transversa
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Crassostrea virginica Gmelin 1791 oyster
Ostrea sp. Linnaeus 1758 oyster | |
Anomia simplex d'Orbigny 1845 jingle | |
Aequipecten sp. Fischer 1886 scallop |