Where: Hendry County, Florida (26.7° N, 81.0° W: paleocoordinates 26.8° N, 80.2° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Tamiami Formation, Pliocene (5.3 - 2.6 Ma)
• Determined from cores from test wells drilled by US Corps of Engineers in 1950
•8 ft 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; shelly/skeletal, 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 75010: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Kate Bulinski on 13.09.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
"Solariella" sp. Wood 1842 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Mytilus sp. Linnaeus 1758 mussel | |
Ostrea sp. Linnaeus 1758 oyster | |
Arcopsis adamsi Dall 1886 clam | |
"Cardita (Carditamera) sp." = Carditamera, "Venericardia (Pleuromeris) sp." = Pleuromeris
"Cardita (Carditamera) sp." = Carditamera Conrad 1838 clam
"Venericardia (Pleuromeris) sp." = Pleuromeris Conrad 1867 clam |