Where: Hendry County, Florida (26.8° N, 81.4° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Fort Thompson Formation, Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
• 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?)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; poorly lithified, shelly/skeletal siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: original aragonite, original calcite
Reposited in the YPM
Collection methods: bulk, sieve,
• COLLECTOR: C.O. Dunbar, 1965. REPOSITORY: YPM.
Primary reference: 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 Unpublished census data from Atlantic coastal plain and circum-Caribbean Neogene assemblages and taxonomic opinions.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]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 69040: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 15.02.2007
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Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Cerithium (Thericium) muscarum Say 1832 cerith snail | |
Turritella apicalis turret shell
Turritella sp. Lamarck 1799 turret shell | |
Cancellaria reticulata Emmon 1858 snail | |
Mitridae indet. Swainson 1831 mitre shell | |
Latirus sp. Monfort 1810 snail | |
Bostrycapulus aculeatus Gmelin 1791 spiny slipper shell
Crucibulum (Dispotaea) striata slipper shell
Crepidula fornicata Linnaeus 1758 slipper limpet | |
Bivalvia | |
Carditamera floridana Conrad 1838 clam
Pleuromeris tridentata Say 1826 clam | |
"Eurytellina sp." = Tellina (Eurytellina), Angulus sp.
"Eurytellina sp." = Tellina (Eurytellina) Fischer 1887 tellin clam
Angulus sp. Megerle 1811 tellin clam | |
"Trachycardium muricatum" = Trachycardium (Dallocardia) muricatum, "Laevicardium laevigatum" = Laevicardium serratum
"Trachycardium muricatum" = Trachycardium (Dallocardia) muricatum Linnaeus 1758 cockle
"Laevicardium laevigatum" = Laevicardium serratum Linnaeus 1758 cockle | |
Mulinia sapotila clam | |
Gemma gemma, Transennella stimpsoni, "Anomalocardia auberiana" = Anomalocardia cuneimeris, Chione cancellata
Gemma gemma Totten 1834 venus clam
Transennella stimpsoni Dall 1902 venus clam
"Anomalocardia auberiana" = Anomalocardia cuneimeris Conrad 1846 venus clam
Chione cancellata Linnaeus 1767 venus clam | |
Teredinidae indet. Rafinesque 1815 clam | |
Ensis directus Conrad 1844 razor clam | |
Ostrea sp. Linnaeus 1758 oyster | |
Anomia simplex d'Orbigny 1845 jingle | |
Carolinapecten eboreus Conrad 1833 scallop | |
Tucetona arata Conrad 1841 clam | |
Arcopsis adamsi Dall 1886 clam | |
Anadara trapezia Deshayes 1839 ark |