Where: Pinellas County, Florida (27.8° N, 82.7° W: paleocoordinates 27.8° N, 82.3° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Caloosahatchee Formation, Early/Lower Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.8 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From unknown unit, but probably the Caloosahatchee Fm based on faunal content. AGE: Early Pleistocene. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Unknown position within formation.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified, shelly/skeletal sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: original aragonite, original calcite
Collected by Marcott and Olsson in 1962; reposited in the PRI
Collection methods: bulk, sieve,
• COLLECTOR: E. Marcott and A.A. Olsson, 1962. REPOSITORY: PRI, Ithaca, NY. FIDELITY: Moderate ecological fidelity.
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Primary reference: A. J. W. Hendy, D. P. Buick, K. V. Bulinski, C. A. Ferguson, and A. I. Miller. 2008. Unpublished census data from Atlantic coastal plain and circum-Caribbean Neogene assemblages and taxonomic opinions. [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 80024: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 01.04.2008, edited by Kate Bulinski
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Crepidula plana, Calyptraea centralis, "Crepidula aculeata" = Bostrycapulus aculeatus, Crucibulum (Dispotaea) multilineata
Crepidula plana Say 1822 slipper shell
Calyptraea centralis Conrad 1841 slipper shell
"Crepidula aculeata" = Bostrycapulus aculeatus Gmelin 1791 slipper shell
Crucibulum (Dispotaea) multilineata slipper shell | |
"Turritella (Torcula) apicaulis" = Torcula, Turritella (Bactrospira) perattenuata, Vermicularia spirata
"Turritella (Torcula) apicaulis" = Torcula turret shell
Turritella (Bactrospira) perattenuata Heilprin 1886 turret shell
Vermicularia spirata Philippi 1836 turret shell | |
Marginella sp. Lamarck 1799 margin shell | |
Gemophos sp. Olsson and Harbison 1953 true whelk | |
Bulla striata BruguiƩre 1792 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam | |
Carditamera arata Conrad 1832 clam | |
Bellucina waccamawensis Dall 1903 clam | |
"Macrocallista reposta" = Macrocallista (Macrocallista) reposta, Anomalocardia caloosana, "Dosinia elegans" = Dosinia (Dosinidia) elegans, Chione (Chione) elevata, "Chione (Chione) cribraria" = Chione cribraria, Transennella conradina
"Macrocallista reposta" = Macrocallista (Macrocallista) reposta Conrad 1834 venus clam
"Dosinia elegans" = Dosinia (Dosinidia) elegans Conrad 1838 venus clam
Chione (Chione) elevata Say 1822 venus clam
"Chione (Chione) cribraria" = Chione cribraria Conrad 1843 venus clam
Transennella conradina Dall 1884 venus clam | |
Mulinia caloosaensis clam
Rangia cuneata Sowerby 1831 clam | |
Arcinella cornuta Conrad 1866 jewel box | |
Trachycardium emmonsi cockle | |
Brachiodontes exustus mussel | |
Tucetona arata Conrad 1841 clam | |
Arca wagneriana Heilprin 1887 ark | |
Pinna sp. Linnaeus 1758 oyster | |
Crassostrea virginica Gmelin 1791 oyster | |
"Plicatula marginata" = Plicatula gibbosa
"Plicatula marginata" = Plicatula gibbosa Lamarck 1801 scallop | |
Anomia simplex d'Orbigny 1845 jingle | |
unclassified | |
Annelida indet. Lamarck 1809 |