TU 759 - Ortona Lock ("Unit A") (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: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From "Unit A", which presumably regionally overlies the Caloosahatchee Formation. AGE: Late Pleistocene. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within section.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified lithology not reported

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

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original aragonite

Collected by Vokes & Vokes; reposited in the FLMNH, 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 Unpublished notes [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/P. Wagner]more details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 92622: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 18.11.2009

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 - Muricidae
Murexiella (Murexiella) glypta2 Smith 1938 murex snail
Attiliosa striata5 Gabb 1873 murex snail
Calotrophon ostrearum5 Conrad 1846 murex snail
Dermomurex (Dermomurex) elizabethae4 McGinty 1940 murex snail
Aspella senex4 Dall 1903 murex snail
Bivalvia
 Cardiida - Tellinidae
"Arcopagia (Johnsonella) fausta" = Arcopagia fausta3
"Arcopagia (Johnsonella) fausta" = Arcopagia fausta3 Pulteney 1799 tellin clam