Where: Broward County, Florida (26.3° N, 80.9° W: paleocoordinates 26.4° N, 80.5° 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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•1 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 75008: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Kate Bulinski on 13.09.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
"Turritella cf. perattenuata" = Turritella (Bactrospira) perattenuata
"Turritella cf. perattenuata" = Turritella (Bactrospira) perattenuata Heilprin 1886 turret shell | |
Cerithium aff. caloosaensis cerith snail | |
Oliva sp. Bruguière 1789 olive snail thick parietal callus, Same form appears at Duplin marl at Natural Well N.C.
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"Marginella limatula" = Prunum limatulum
"Marginella limatula" = Prunum limatulum Conrad 1834 margin shell | |
"Conus adversarius" = Conus (Contraconus) adversarius
"Conus adversarius" = Conus (Contraconus) adversarius Conrad 1840 cone shell | |
Bivalvia | |
Venericardia (Pleuromeris) decemcostata Conrad 1867 clam | |
"Phacoides (Parvilucina) cf. crenulatus" = Parvilucina crenulata
"Phacoides (Parvilucina) cf. crenulatus" = Parvilucina crenulata Conrad 1840 clam | |
Chione cancellata Linnaeus 1767 venus clam
Parastarte sp. Conrad 1862 venus clam | |
Cunearca scalaris Conrad 1844 ark | |
Atrina sp. Gray 1842 oyster | |
Anomia sp. Linnaeus 1758 jingle |