Where: Hendry County, Florida (26.8° N, 81.1° W: paleocoordinates 26.8° N, 80.7° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Caloosahatchee Formation, Early/Lower Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.8 Ma)
• Determined from cores from test wells drilled by US Corps of Engineers in 1950
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•3-4 foot below sea level
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•Age determination revised in more recent papers (see Lithostratigraphy, Petrography,
•Biostratigraphy, and Strontium-Isotope
•Stratigraphy of the Surficial Aquifer System
•of Western Collier County, Florida, Edwards et al., 1998, USGS Open-File Report 98-205)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; gray, white, silty, sandy marl
Size class: mesofossils
Collection methods: core
• observed from cores
Primary reference: M. C. Schroeder and H. Klein. 1954. Geology of the Western Everglades Area, Southern Florida. United States Geological Survey Circular 314 [A. Miller/K. Bulinski/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 75001: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Kate Bulinski on 13.09.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Acteocina sp. Gray 1847 barrel-bubble | |
Cerithium sp. Bruguière 1789 cerith snail | |
Turritella subannulata turret shell | |
"Natica canrena" = Naticarius canrena
"Natica canrena" = Naticarius canrena Linnaeus 1758 moon snail | |
"Busycon pyrum" = Busycotypus spiratus
"Busycon pyrum" = Busycotypus spiratus Lamarck 1816 whelk | |
Terebra aff. protexta Conrad 1845 auger snail | |
Oliva cf. carolinae olive snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Anomia sp. Linnaeus 1758 jingle | |
Arcopsis adamsi Dall 1886 clam | |
"Anadara cf. transversa" = Anadara (Larkinia) transversa
"Anadara cf. transversa" = Anadara (Larkinia) transversa Say 1822 ark | |
Chione cf. cribraria Conrad 1843 venus clam
Chione cancellata Linnaeus 1767 venus clam | |
Corbula sp. Bruguière 1789 clam | |
"Cardita (Carditamera) floridana" = Carditamera floridana
"Cardita (Carditamera) floridana" = Carditamera floridana Conrad 1838 clam |