Unit 4, Fruitville Mbr, Tamiami Fm (Pliocene of the United States)

Where: Florida (27.3° N, 82.4° W: paleocoordinates 27.4° N, 81.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Fruitville Member (Tamiami Formation), Late/Upper Pliocene (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Fruitville Mbr of the Tamiami Fm, Okeechobee Grp, which is overlain by the Fordville Mbr of the Caloosahatchee Fm, and overlies the Golden Gate Mbr of the Tamiami Fm. Correlative with the Yorktown, Chowan RIver, Waccamaw, Jackson Bluff Fm, and the upper Golden Gate Mbr of the Tamiami Fm. THICKNESS: Varies between 5 and 8 m across areal extent. AGE: Late Pliocene. Based on macrofossil biostratigraphy the unit is throught to represent the latest Piacenzian. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Checklist representative of beds representing unit 4, at the top of the member, at the top of the APAC section.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• ENVIRONMENT: Lagoonal and subtidal carbonate; mangrove forests and mudflats, sand flats and turtle grass beds.
• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Interbedded unit variably composed of organic rich quartz sand and muddy quartz sand with densely packed skeletal material.. 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 79876: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 25.03.2008

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.
unclassified
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Gastropoda
 Neritoidea - Neritidae
 Cerithioidea - Potamididae
 Cerithioidea - Batillariidae
 Sorbeoconcha - Cypraeidae
Calusacypraea tequesta Petuch 1996 cowry
"Pseudadusta metae" = Siphocypraea metae Petuch 1994 cowry
Akleistostoma macbrideae Petuch 1996 cowry
Akleistostoma jenniferae Petuch 1998 cowry
 Sorbeoconcha - Strombidae
"Strombus sarasotaensis" = Strombus floridanus
"Strombus sarasotaensis" = Strombus floridanus Mansfield 1930 conch
 Neogastropoda - Muricidae
"Thais (Stramonita) sarasotana" = Stramonita, Calotrophon myakka
"Thais (Stramonita) sarasotana" = Stramonita murex snail
Calotrophon myakka murex snail
 Neogastropoda - Melongenidae
Tropochasca metae, Melongena draperi, "Pyruella schmidti" = Busycon, "Pyruella laevis" = Busycon, "Echinofulgur jonesae" = Busycon
"Pyruella schmidti" = Busycon whelk
"Pyruella laevis" = Busycon whelk
"Echinofulgur jonesae" = Busycon whelk
 Neogastropoda - Fasciolariidae
 Neogastropoda - Conidae
"Contraconus berryi" = Conus (Contraconus) adversarius, "Jaspidiconus laurenae" = Conus laurenae
"Contraconus berryi" = Conus (Contraconus) adversarius Conrad 1840 cone shell
"Jaspidiconus laurenae" = Conus laurenae Petuch 1994 cone shell
 Neogastropoda - Turbinellidae
 Opisthobranchia - Bullidae
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
 Cardiida - Mactridae