TU 932 - Kissimmee River [Pinecrest Fm] (Pliocene of the United States)

Where: Okeechobee County, Florida (27.4° N, 81.1° W: paleocoordinates 27.4° N, 80.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From Pinecrest beds ?=Pinecrest Mbr. AGE: Late Pliocene. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Unknown position within formation.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified, shelly/skeletal sandstone

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

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original aragonite

Collected by Vokes & Vokes; reposited in the USNM

Collection methods: surface (float),

• 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 Unpublished notes [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/P. Wagner]more details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 92443: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 13.11.2009

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Limited to Anadara (Caloosarca) described in text, and subsequent publications. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication with modern nomenclature and species-resolution identifications.
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Gastropoda
 Neogastropoda - Muricidae
Typhis (Rugotyphis) harrisi1, Typhis (Rugotyphis) floridanus1, Calotrophon ostrearum3
Typhis (Rugotyphis) harrisi1 Olsson 1914 murex snail
Typhis (Rugotyphis) floridanus1 Dall 1889 murex snail
Calotrophon ostrearum3 Conrad 1846 murex snail
 Neogastropoda - Nassariidae
"Trajana (Trajana) pyta" = Trajana pyta2
"Trajana (Trajana) pyta" = Trajana pyta2 Gardner 1948 snail
1Gertman 1969; 2Vokes 1969; 3Vokes 1976