TU 726 - La Belle [Caloosahatchee Fm] (Pleistocene of the United States)

Where: Hendry County, Florida (26.8° N, 81.4° W: paleocoordinates 26.8° N, 81.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Caloosahatchee Formation, Early/Lower Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.8 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From Caloosahatchee Fm for which lithostratigraphic relationships are not discussed. AGE: Early Pleistocene. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within sequence.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• ENVIRONMENT: Shallow-marine, siliciclastic environment.
• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Marl, shelly. LITHIFICATION: Unlithified, based on figured specimens and facies description.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original aragonite

Collected by Vokes & Vokes

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

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

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 Unpublished notes [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/P. Wagner]more details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 92692: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 24.11.2009

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.
Gastropoda
 Neogastropoda - Muricidae
Typhis (Rugotyphis) floridanus1 Dall 1889 murex snail
Dermomurex (Dermomurex) engonatus3 Dall 1892 murex snail
Aspella senex3 Dall 1903 murex snail
Attiliosa striata4 Gabb 1873 murex snail
Calotrophon ostrearum4 Conrad 1846 murex snail
"Murexiella (Murexiella) macgintyi" = Murexiella macgintyi2 Smith 1938 murex snail
Murexiella (Subpterynotus) textilis2 Gabb 1873 murex snail
Murexiella (Murexiella) shilohensis2 Heilprin 1887 murex snail