TU 768 - Ortona Lock [Caloosahatchee Fm] (Pleistocene of the United States)

Where: Glades County, Florida (26.8° N, 81.3° W: paleocoordinates 26.8° N, 81.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Caloosahatchee Formation, Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From Caloosahatchee Fm and post-Caloosahatchee Fms (mixed). AGE: Early Pleistocene + some undifferentiated Pleistocene. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From dredged spoil banks.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified sandstone

• ENVIRONMENT: Shallow-marine, siliciclastic environment.
• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Sandstone. LITHIFICATION: Unlithified, based on observation of specimens.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original aragonite

Collected by Vokes & Vokes; reposited in the FLMNH, USNM

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• COLLECTOR: E. Vokes and H. Vokes. REPOSITORY: Florida Museum of Natural History, USNM.

Primary reference: E. H. Vokes and H. E. Vokes. 2000. Catalogue of Tulane University fossil localities. Unpublished notes [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 92333: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 08.11.2009

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Limited to taxa described in text, and subsequent publications. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication with modern nomenclature and species-resolution identifications.
Gastropoda
 Neogastropoda - Olividae
Oliva (Omogymna) liodes1 Dall 1903 olive snail
 Neogastropoda - Muricidae
Typhis (Rugotyphis) floridanus2 Dall 1889 murex snail
Calotrophon ostrearum7 Conrad 1846 murex snail
Dermomurex (Dermomurex) engonatus6 Dall 1892 murex snail
Aspella senex6 Dall 1903 murex snail
Bivalvia
 Arcida - Arcidae
 Lucinida - Lucinidae
 Cardiida - Tellinidae
"Arcopagia (Johnsonella) fausta" = Arcopagia fausta5
"Arcopagia (Johnsonella) fausta" = Arcopagia fausta5 Pulteney 1799 tellin clam