Where: Osceola County, Florida (28.3° N, 81.4° W: paleocoordinates 28.4° N, 80.8° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Pinecrest Member (Tamiami Formation), Late/Upper Pliocene (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From Pinecrest beds ?=Pinecrest Mbr. AGE: Late Pliocene. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Unknown position within formation.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified, shelly/skeletal sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: original aragonite, original calcite
Reposited in the PRI, UNSM
Collection methods: bulk,
• COLLECTOR: Many collectiors, including P. and T. McGinty, R. C. Hoerle, J. Donovan, M. Nelson, El Crovo, C. Edwards, and presumably A. Olsson. REPOSITORY: Some material reposited at USNM and PRI, but also among private collections.
Primary reference: A. A. Olsson. 1967. Some Tertiary mollusks from South Florida and the Carribean. Paleontological Research Institute 1-61 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 79765: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 23.03.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Calliostoma (Leiotrochus) pauli top snail | |
Turritella (Broderiptella) mansfieldi Olsson 1967 turret shell | |
Littorina sheaferi Olsson 1967 periwinkle | |
Ilyanassa floridana snail
Ilyanassa marthae Olsson 1967 snail | |
Hindsia pyta true whelk | |
Busycon (Echinofulgur) echinatum Dall 1890 whelk SUBSPECIES: Busycon (Echinofulgur) echinatum helenae
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Trigonostoma carolinense, Trigonostoma (Extractrix) hoerlei, Trigonostoma (Emmonsella) smithfieldensis, Cancellaria (Massyla) shirleyae, Perplicaria perplexa
Trigonostoma carolinense snail
Trigonostoma (Extractrix) hoerlei Olsson 1967 snail
Trigonostoma (Emmonsella) smithfieldensis Oleksyshyn 1960 snail
Cancellaria (Massyla) shirleyae Olsson 1967 snail
Perplicaria perplexa Dall 1890 snail | |
Cymatosyrinx aclinica Tucker and Wilson 1933 snail | |
Terebra (Myurellina) unilineata auger snail | |
Scaphella tenholmii volute
Aurinia (Volutifusus) obtusa Emmons 1858 volute | |
Bivalvia | |
Placunanomia plicata Tuomey and Holmes 1857 scallop | |
Planicardium virginianum Conrad 1839 cockle |