Where: Glades County, Florida (27.0° N, 81.2° W: paleocoordinates 27.0° N, 81.2° W)
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Fort Thompson Formation, Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From Fort Thompson Fm, which is in this section overlain by the Pamlico Fm (Late Pleistocene) and overlies the Caloosahatchee Fm (Early Pleistocene). AGE: Assigned to Late Pleistocene (A. Hendy, 2007). STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From Unit 4, a 25 ft thick shell marl.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified, medium-grained, shelly/skeletal, gray, sandy marl
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: core,
• COLLECTOR: Florida Geological Survey, 1954. REPOSITORY: Not stated, but presumably the Florida Geological Survey.
Primary reference: J. R. DuBar. 1958. Stratigraphy and paleontology of the Late Neogene strata of the Caloosahatchee River area of southern Florida. Florida Geological Survey Bulletin 40:1-267 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 80001: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 31.03.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Scaphopoda | |
Dentalium sp. Linnaeus 1758 tusk shell | |
Gastropoda | |
Crepidula fornicata Linnaeus 1758 slipper shell | |
Cerithium muscarum Say 1832 cerith snail | |
Olivella mutica Say 1822 olive snail | |
Nassarius sp. Duméril 1806 snail
Nassarius vibex Say 1822 snail | |
Columbella rusticoides Heilprin 1887 snail | |
"Marginella apicina" = Prunum apicinum
"Marginella apicina" = Prunum apicinum Menke 1828 margin shell | |
"Fontigens" sp. Pilsbry 1935 snail | |
Helisoma scalare snail | |
"Turbonilla" sp. Risso 1826 snail | |
Acteocina canaliculata Say 1826 barrel-bubble | |
Bivalvia | |
Gemma triquetra, "Pitar sayana" = Pitar morrhuanus, "Transenella cf. conradina" = Transennella conradina, "Macrocallista nimbosa" = Macrocallista (Macrocallista) nimbosa, Anomalocardia caloosana, Chione cancellata
Gemma triquetra venus clam
"Pitar sayana" = Pitar morrhuanus Dall 1902 venus clam
"Transenella cf. conradina" = Transennella conradina Dall 1884 venus clam
"Macrocallista nimbosa" = Macrocallista (Macrocallista) nimbosa Solander 1786 venus clam
Anomalocardia caloosana venus clam
Chione cancellata Linnaeus 1767 venus clam | |
Tellina sp. Linnaeus 1758 tellin clam | |
Laevicardium mortoni Conrad 1831 cockle
Trachycardium sp. Mörch 1853 cockle | |
"Phacoides waccamawensis" = Bellucina waccamawensis, "Phacoides multilineatus" = Parvilucina multistriata, "Phacoides anodonta" = Stewartia anodonta
"Phacoides waccamawensis" = Bellucina waccamawensis Dall 1903 clam
"Phacoides multilineatus" = Parvilucina multistriata Conrad 1841 clam
"Phacoides anodonta" = Stewartia anodonta Say 1824 clam | |
"Cardita floridana" = Carditamera floridana
"Cardita floridana" = Carditamera floridana Conrad 1838 clam | |
Brachidontes sp. Swainson 1840 mussel | |
Chlamys sp. Röding 1798 scallop |