YPM Loc. A-913 [Fort Thompson Fm]: Late/Upper Pleistocene, Florida

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Tagelus divisus Spengler 1794
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Cerithiidae
Cerithium (Thericium) muscarum Say 1832
2 specimens
Gastropoda - Turritellidae
Turritella apicalis
6 specimens
Turritella sp. Lamarck 1799
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neotaenioglossa - Calyptraeidae
Crepidula fornicata (Linnaeus 1758)
1 specimen
Bostrycapulus aculeatus (Gmelin 1791)
11 specimens
Crucibulum (Dispotaea) striata
3 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Fasciolariidae
Latirus sp. Monfort 1810
2 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Cancellariidae
Cancellaria reticulata (Emmon 1858)
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Mitridae
Mitridae indet. Swainson 1831
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Carolinapecten eboreus (Conrad 1833)
2 specimens
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Anomiidae
Anomia simplex d'Orbigny 1845
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostrea sp. Linnaeus 1758
5 specimens
Bivalvia - Arcida - Noetiidae
Arcopsis adamsi (Dall 1886)
4 specimens
Bivalvia - Arcida - Arcidae
Anadara trapezia Deshayes 1839
10 specimens
Bivalvia - Arcida - Glycymerididae
Tucetona arata (Conrad 1841)
7 specimens
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
Trachycardium muricatum (Linnaeus 1758)
1 specimen
recombined as Trachycardium (Dallocardia) muricatum
Laevicardium laevigatum (Linnaeus 1758)
6 specimens
replaced by Laevicardium serratum
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Tellinidae
Angulus sp. Megerle 1811
1 specimen
Eurytellina sp. Fischer 1887
1 specimen
spelled with current rank as Tellina (Eurytellina)
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
Anomalocardia auberiana (d'Orbigny 1853)
7 specimens
synonym of Anomalocardia cuneimeris
Chione cancellata (Linnaeus 1767)
12 specimens
Gemma gemma (Totten 1834)
1 specimen
Transennella stimpsoni Dall 1902
3 specimens
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Mactridae
Hemimactra solidssima
1 specimen
Mulinia sapotila
5 specimens
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Teredinidae
Teredinidae indet. Rafinesque 1815
2 specimens
Bivalvia - Solenida - Pharidae
Ensis directus (Conrad 1844)
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Carditida - Carditidae
Carditamera floridana Conrad 1838
5 specimens
Pleuromeris tridentata (Say 1826)
1 specimen
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Florida County:Hendry
Coordinates: 26.8° North, 81.4° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:26.8° North, 81.0° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Pleistocene
Stage:Late/Upper Pleistocene 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Late/Upper Pleistocene
Age range of interval:0.12900 - 0.01170 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Fort Thompson
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From Fort Thompson Fm. AGE: Assigned to Late Pleistocene (A. Hendy, 2007). STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Unknown position within formation. According to collection notes, in addition to belonging to Fort Thompson Fm, the collection is from the "2rd interglacial". Possibly not Fort Thompson but undifferentiated Pleistocene (Late Pleistocene?)
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:shelly/skeletal poorly lithified "siliciclastic"
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Siliciclastic, shelly. LITHIFICATION: Poorly-lithified, based on observation of specimens.
Environment:coastal indet.
Geology comments: ENVIRONMENT: Shallow-marine, siliciclastic environment.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original aragonite,original calcite
Degree of concentration:concentrated
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:medium
Articulated whole bodies:some
Fragmentation:frequent
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:bulk,sieve,field collection
Minimum sieve size:4.000
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Museum repositories:YPM
Collection method comments: COLLECTOR: C.O. Dunbar, 1965. REPOSITORY: YPM.
Taxonomic list comments:TAXONOMY: Identified by A. Hendy; nomenclature based on revision of DuBar (1962) [PBDB Ref# 11119] and Portell et al. (1992) [PBDB Ref# 17634].
Metadata
Database number:69040
Authorizer:A. Hendy Enterer:A. Hendy
Modifier:L. Eccles Research group:GCP,marine invertebrate
Created:2007-02-15 13:49:08 Last modified:2013-11-25 13:37:23
Access level:authorizer only Released:2008-02-15 13:49:08
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

19909. A. J. W. Hendy, D. P. Buick, K. V. Bulinski, C. A. Ferguson, and A. I. Miller. 2008. Unpublished census data from Atlantic coastal plain and circum-Caribbean Neogene assemblages and taxonomic opinions. [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]