Where: Hendry County, Florida (26.7° N, 80.9° W: paleocoordinates 26.8° N, 80.1° 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
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•10 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 75012: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Kate Bulinski on 13.09.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
"Turritella variabilis" = Turritella (Torcula) variabilis, Turritella sp.
"Turritella variabilis" = Turritella (Torcula) variabilis Conrad 1830 turret shell | |
Olivella sp. Swainson 1831 olive snail | |
"Nassa" cf. consensa true whelk | |
Conus sp. Linnaeus 1758 cone shell | |
Drillia lunata snail | |
"Marginella limatula" = Prunum limatulum, Marginella denticulata
"Marginella limatula" = Prunum limatulum Conrad 1834 margin shell
Marginella denticulata Conrad 1830 margin shell | |
"Cancellaria aff. venusta" = Massyla venusta
"Cancellaria aff. venusta" = Massyla venusta Tuomey and Holmes 1857 snail like specimens from Duplin marl at Natural Well N.C.
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"Neverita cf. duplicata" = Neverita duplicatus
"Neverita cf. duplicata" = Neverita duplicatus Say 1822 moon snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Anadara improcera, "Cunearca sp." = Anadara (Cunearca)
"Cunearca sp." = Anadara (Cunearca) Dall 1898 ark | |
"Pecten cf. eboreus" = Carolinapecten eboreus
"Pecten cf. eboreus" = Carolinapecten eboreus Conrad 1833 scallop | |
Ostrea scuplturata oyster | |
Mytilus sp. Linnaeus 1758 mussel | |
Dosinia sp. Scopoli 1777 venus clam
Chione cancellata Linnaeus 1767 venus clam | |
Mulinia congesta Conrad 1833 clam | |
Nuculana trochilia pointed nut clam
Nuculana acuta Conrad 1832 pointed nut clam | |
Polychaeta | |
Serpula sp. Linnaeus 1758 |