MCZ C. Jones Loc. 32 [Jackson Bluff Fm] (Pliocene of the United States)

Where: Liberty County, Florida (30.4° N, 85.0° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 31.0° N, 83.8° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Jackson Bluff Formation (Alum Bluff Group), Late/Upper Pliocene (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)

• From the Ecphora Zone

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified, gray, green, silty claystone

• ENVIRONMENT: Shallow-marine, restricted/sheltered, fine-grained siliciclastic environment.
• Grey-green, Turritella-rich silty clay in bed of small creek.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original aragonite

Collected by Jones; reposited in the MCZ

Collection methods: bulk, sieve,

• COLLECTOR: Carol Jones, ~1970's. REPOSITORY: MCZ, Harvard. FIDELITY: High ecologic fidelity.

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 Unpublished census data from Atlantic coastal plain and circum-Caribbean Neogene assemblages and taxonomic opinions.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 80029: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Kate Bulinski on 01.04.2008

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• TAXONOMY: Identified by A. Hendy; nomenclature based on revision of Glenn (1904), Ward (1992), and Petuch (2004).
Gastropoda
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
Torcula alumensis turret shell
 Neogastropoda - Fasciolariidae
 Neogastropoda - Columbellidae
 Neogastropoda - Muricidae
Eupleura miocenica murex snail
Bivalvia
 Pholadida - Corbulidae
Corbula sp., "Caryocorbula inaequalis" = Corbula inaequalis
Corbula sp. Bruguière 1789 clam
"Caryocorbula inaequalis" = Corbula inaequalis Say 1824 clam
 Cardiida - Tellinidae
"Moerella sp." = Tellina (Moerella) Fischer 1887 tellin clam
Macoma virginicana tellin clam
 Cardiida - Mactridae
Mulinia congesta Conrad 1833 clam
 Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Saccella trochilia pointed nut clam
Saccella polychoa pointed nut clam
 Nuculanida - Yoldiidae
Yoldia sp. Möller 1842 clam
Scaphopoda
 Dentaliida - Dentaliidae