Unit C, Shell Creek [Caloosahatchee Fm]: Early/Lower Pleistocene, Florida
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Gastropoda
- Heterostropha
- Pyramidellidae
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Odostomia (Heida) caloosaensis
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Gastropoda
- Lepetellida
- Fissurellidae
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Diodora sp.
Gray 1821
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Gastropoda
- Turritellidae
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Turritella apicalis
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| noted as relatively abundant | ||||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Neotaenioglossa
- Calyptraeidae
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Crepidula aculeata
(Gmelin 1791)
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| recombined as Bostrycapulus aculeatus | ||||||||||
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Crucibulum auriculum
(Gmelin 1791)
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| recombined as Crucibulum (Crucibulum) auricula | ||||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Drilliidae
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"Drillia" sp.
Gray 1838
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Gastropoda
- Vermetidae
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Petaloconchus floridanus
Olsson and Harbison 1953
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| [entered as Petaloconchus floridana] | ||||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Arcida
- Noetiidae
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Fossularca adamsi
(Dall 1886)
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| recombined as Arcopsis adamsi | ||||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Arcida
- Arcidae
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Arca wagneriana
(Heilprin 1887)
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| original and current combination Arcoptera wagneriana | ||||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Cardiidae
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Trachycardium sp.
Mörch 1853
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Chamidae
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Chama gardnerae
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Veneridae
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Anomalocardia caloosana
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Chione cancellata
(Linnaeus 1767)
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| noted as relatively abundant | ||||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Mactridae
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Mulinia lateralis
(Say 1822)
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Bivalvia
- Pholadida
- Corbulidae
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Varicorbula caloosae
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| spelled with current rank as Corbula (Varicorbula) | ||||||||||
| noted as relatively abundant | ||||||||||
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Thecostraca
- Balanomorpha
- Balanidae
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Balanus sp.
Da Costa 1778
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| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Florida | County: | Charlotte |
| Coordinates: | 26.9° North, 82.0° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 26.9° North, 81.7° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | local area |
Time
| Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
| Key time interval: | Early/Lower Pleistocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 2.58000 - 0.77400 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Caloosahatchee | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: COMMENTS: The Calooashatchee is given the stage age Sangamonian. AGE: Assigned Late Pleistocene in text, reassigned to Early Pleistocene by A. Hendy (2007). | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | fine,medium,phosphatic,brown,white,yellow lithified argillaceous,sandy "limestone" | ||
| Includes fossils? | Y | ||
| Lithology description: limestone, marine, hard, porous, sandy, phosphate, quartz grains fine to medium with few large grains, small grains angular to subangular, clear, largest grains subrounded and frosted, clay 5%, white on fresh surface, strained yellow-brown | |||
| Environment: | marine indet. | Tectonic setting: | passive margin |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | bulk,field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | biostratigraphic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | UMMP |
Metadata
| Also known as: | SC-10 | ||
| Database number: | 41498 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Miller | Enterer: | K. Layou |
| Modifier: | L. Eccles | Research group: | GCP,marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2004-07-15 12:29:19 | Last modified: | 2011-07-07 16:08:46 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2004-07-15 12:29:19 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 11119. | J. R. DuBar. 1962. Neogene Biostratigraphy of the Charlotte Harbor Area in Southwestern Florida. Florida Geological Survey Geological Bulletin 43 1-83 [A. Miller/K. Layou/K. Layou] |