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
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 Unpublished census data from Atlantic coastal plain and circum-Caribbean Neogene assemblages and taxonomic opinions.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
Gastropoda | |
Torcula alumensis turret shell | |
Peristernia filicata snail | |
Anachis dappi snail | |
Eupleura miocenica murex snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Corbula sp., "Caryocorbula inaequalis" = Corbula inaequalis
Corbula sp. Bruguière 1789 clam
"Caryocorbula inaequalis" = Corbula inaequalis Say 1824 clam | |
"Moerella sp." = Tellina (Moerella), Macoma virginicana
"Moerella sp." = Tellina (Moerella) Fischer 1887 tellin clam
Macoma virginicana tellin clam | |
Mulinia congesta Conrad 1833 clam | |
Saccella trochilia pointed nut clam
Saccella polychoa pointed nut clam | |
Yoldia sp. Möller 1842 clam | |
Scaphopoda | |
Dentalium carolinensis tusk shell |