Where: Hendry County, Florida (26.7° N, 81.0° W: paleocoordinates 26.7° N, 80.6° 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
•4 ft above 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 75003: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Kate Bulinski on 13.09.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Marginella sp. Lamarck 1799 margin shell | |
Bivalvia | |
Pecten sp. Müller 1776 scallop | |
"Ostrea sculpturata" = Conradostrea sculpturata
"Ostrea sculpturata" = Conradostrea sculpturata Conrad 1840 oyster | |
"Anadara transversa" = Anadara (Larkinia) transversa
"Anadara transversa" = Anadara (Larkinia) transversa Say 1822 ark | |
Cardium sp. Linnaeus 1758 cockle | |
Dosinia sp. Scopoli 1777 venus clam | |
Mulinia cf. lateralis Say 1822 clam | |