Bee Branch Mbr, Caloosahatchee Fm (Pleistocene of the United States)

Where: Florida (26.8° N, 81.4° W: paleocoordinates 26.8° N, 81.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• basin-level geographic resolution

When: Bee Branch Member (Caloosahatchee Formation), Early/Lower Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.8 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Bee Branch Mbr of the Caloosahatchee Fm, Okeechobee Grp, which is overlain by the Ayers Landing Mbr, and overlies the Fort Denaud Mbr of the Caloosahatchee Fm. Correlative with the James City Fm, Waccamaw Fm, and the Rucks Pit Mbr of the Nashua Fm. THICKNESS: Varies between 1 and 3 m across areal extent. AGE: Early Pleistocene. Based on macrofossil biostratigraphy the unit is assigned to the early Calabrian. Here assigned to the Early Pleistocene. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Checklist representative of entire member.

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; unlithified, shelly/skeletal, calcareous sandstone

• ENVIRONMENT: Lagoonal and subtidal carbonate; shallow sand-bottom lagoon, turtle grass beds.
• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Hard, solution riddled marine limestone or marl and unconsolidated calcarenite, from which most fossils are derived. LITHIFICATION: Unlithified, based on figured specimens and facies description.

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: COLLECTOR: Unknown, presumably the authors and others. REPOSITORY: No repository stated.

Primary reference: E. J. Petuch and C. E. Roberts. 2007. The geology of the Everglades and adjacent areas 1-212 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 79805: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 24.03.2008

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Includes only the more abundant and indicative species of gastropoda and bivalvia. NOMENCLATURE: Modern nomenclature, with subgenus and species-resolution assignments.
Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Cypraeidae
 Sorbeoconcha - Strombidae
"Macrostrombus brachior" = Strombus (Macrostrombus)
"Macrostrombus brachior" = Strombus (Macrostrombus) conch
 Neogastropoda - Harpidae
"Cancellomorum obrienae" = Oniscidia
"Cancellomorum obrienae" = Oniscidia snail
 Neogastropoda - Muricidae
Chicoreus sarae murex snail
 Neogastropoda - Turbinellidae
Hystrivasum horridum Heilprin 1887 snail
 Neogastropoda - Conidae
"Dauciconus gravesae" = Conus daucus, "Contraconus cf. osceolai" = Conus (Contraconus) adversarius, "Gradiconus ronaldsmithi" = Conus
"Dauciconus gravesae" = Conus daucus Hwass in BruguiƩre 1792 cone shell
"Contraconus cf. osceolai" = Conus (Contraconus) adversarius Conrad 1840 cone shell
"Gradiconus ronaldsmithi" = Conus cone shell
 Neogastropoda - Fasciolariidae
"Fasciolaria (Cinctura) lindae" = Cinctura, Fasciolaria seminole, Terebraspira labellensis
"Fasciolaria (Cinctura) lindae" = Cinctura snail
 Neogastropoda - Melongenidae
"Sinistrofulgur labellensis" = Busycon, "Echinofulgur palmbeachensis" = Busycon, "Fulguropsis elongatus" = Busycon
"Sinistrofulgur labellensis" = Busycon whelk
"Echinofulgur palmbeachensis" = Busycon whelk
"Fulguropsis elongatus" = Busycon whelk
 Neogastropoda - Cancellariidae