Where: Broward County, Florida (26.4° N, 80.8° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 27.0° N, 79.4° W (Wright 2013)
• coordinate estimated from map
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Tamiami Formation, Pliocene (5.3 - 2.6 Ma)
• Determined from cores from test wells drilled by US Corps of Engineers in 1950
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•7 ft below sea level
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•Age determination revised in more recent papers (see Lithostratigraphy, Petrography,
•Biostratigraphy, and Strontium-Isotope
•Stratigraphy of the Surficial Aquifer System
•of Western Collier County, Florida, Edwards et al., 1998, USGS Open-File Report 98-205)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; shelly/skeletal, silty, sandy marl
Size class: mesofossils
Collection methods: core
• observed from cores
Primary reference: M. C. Schroeder and H. Klein. 1954. Geology of the Western Everglades Area, Southern Florida. United States Geological Survey Circular 314 [A. Miller/K. Bulinski/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 75016: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Kate Bulinski on 13.09.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
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"Marginella limatula" = Prunum limatulum
"Marginella limatula" = Prunum limatulum Conrad 1834 margin shell | |
Bivalvia | |
"Cardita (Carditamera) sp." = Carditamera, "Venericardia (Pteromeris) perplana" = Pteromeris perplana
"Cardita (Carditamera) sp." = Carditamera Conrad 1838 clam
"Venericardia (Pteromeris) perplana" = Pteromeris perplana Dall 1903 clam | |
"Chione (Lirophora) latilirata" = Lirophora (Lirophora) latilirata, Chione (Athleta) sp., Chione cancellata, Gemma magna
"Chione (Lirophora) latilirata" = Lirophora (Lirophora) latilirata Conrad 1841 venus clam subspecies athleta
Chione (Athleta) sp. von Mühlfield 1811 venus clam
Chione cancellata Linnaeus 1767 venus clam
Gemma magna Dall 1903 venus clam | |
Mytilus sp. Linnaeus 1758 mussel | |
"Pecten cf. eboreus" = Carolinapecten eboreus
"Pecten cf. eboreus" = Carolinapecten eboreus Conrad 1833 scallop | |
Anadara sp. Gray 1847 ark | |
Scaphopoda | |
Dentalium sp. Linnaeus 1758 tusk shell |