Where: Florida (26.1° N, 81.5° W: paleocoordinates 26.2° N, 80.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• basin-level geographic resolution

When: Tamiami Formation, Early/Lower Pliocene (5.3 - 3.6 Ma)

• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONSHIPS: From the Tamiami Formation, which unconformably underlies the Pinecrest Beds (=Pincrest Fm), and is correlative to the Choctawatchee Fm (=Jackson Bluff Fm) in Northern Florida and Yorktown Fm of North Carolina and Virginia. AGE: Early Pliocene-Late Pliocene according to Oyen and Portell, but assigned here to an Early Pliocene age. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within formation.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, phosphatic, shelly/skeletal, gray, calcareous sandstone and lithified, phosphatic, gray, green, sandy, calcareous claystone

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression, original calcite

Reposited in the USNM

• COLLECTORS: Multiple collectors, probably including Mansfield, A. Olsson, and R. Petit. REPOSITORY: USNM.

Primary reference: C. W. Oyen and R. W. Portell. 2001. Diversity patterns and biostratigraphy of Cenozoic echinodems from Florida. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 166:193-218 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 35026: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 25.10.2003, edited by Mihaela Krause

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