Where: Leon County, Florida (30.4° N, 84.6° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 30.9° N, 83.5° 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)
• Very near top of section
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified, shelly/skeletal, brown, sandy marl
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 Unpublished census data from Atlantic coastal plain and circum-Caribbean Neogene assemblages and taxonomic opinions.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 80037: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Kate Bulinski on 01.04.2008
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
Brachiopoda | |
Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805 | |
Gastropoda | |
Crucibulum sp. Schumacher 1817 slipper shell
"Crepidula spinosa" = Bostrycapulus aculeatus Gmelin 1791 slipper shell
Crepidula fornicata Linnaeus 1758 slipper shell | |
Ptychosalpinx duerri true whelk | |
"Fusinus dalli" = Heilprinia dalli
"Fusinus dalli" = Heilprinia dalli Mansfield 1930 snail | |
Trigonostoma teriera snail | |
Petaloconchus sculpturatus Lea 1846 worm shell | |
Vermicularia spirata Philippi 1836 turret shell
Turritella alumensis turret shell | |
Bivalvia | |
Astarte gleni clam
Astarte floridana Dall 1903 clam | |
Carditamera arata Conrad 1832 clam
Cyclocardia granulata Say 1824 clam | |
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"Macrocallista reposta" = Macrocallista (Macrocallista) reposta, "Transenella carolinensis" = Transennella, Lirophora ulocyma, "Lirophora latilirata" = Lirophora (Lirophora) latilirata, "Mercenaria rileyi" = Mercenaria campechiensis rileyi, Chione erosa
"Macrocallista reposta" = Macrocallista (Macrocallista) reposta Conrad 1834 venus clam
"Transenella carolinensis" = Transennella venus clam
Lirophora ulocyma Dall 1895 venus clam
"Lirophora latilirata" = Lirophora (Lirophora) latilirata Conrad 1841 venus clam
"Mercenaria rileyi" = Mercenaria campechiensis rileyi Conrad 1838 quahog
Chione erosa venus clam | |
"Echinochama arcinella" = Arcinella arcinella
"Echinochama arcinella" = Arcinella arcinella Linnaeus 1767 jewel box | |
Mulinia congesta Conrad 1833 clam | |
Semele alumrensis clam
Abra subreflexa abra | |
Chesacardium laqueatum Conrad 1830 cockle | |
Bothrocorbula sp., "Caryocorbula inaequalis" = Corbula inaequalis, "Corbula cf. chipolana" = Varicorbula chipolana
Bothrocorbula sp. Gabb 1873 clam
"Caryocorbula inaequalis" = Corbula inaequalis Say 1824 clam | |
Perna sp. Retzius 1788 mussel | |
"Anadara lienosa" = Anadara (Rasia) lienosa, Dallarca idarea
"Anadara lienosa" = Anadara (Rasia) lienosa Say 1832 ark
Dallarca idarea clam | |
Noetia incile Say 1824 clam | |
Tucetona sp. Iredale 1939 clam
Costaglycymeris subovata Say 1824 clam
Glycymeris americana Defrance 1826 clam | |
"Chama striata" = Nanogyra (Palaeogyra) virgula
"Chama striata" = Nanogyra (Palaeogyra) virgula Deshayes 1831 oyster | |
Conradostrea sculpturata Conrad 1840 oyster
Ostrea disparilis oyster | |
"Plicatula marginata" = Plicatula gibbosa
"Plicatula marginata" = Plicatula gibbosa Lamarck 1801 scallop | |
Placunanomia plicata Tuomey and Holmes 1857 scallop
Anomia sp. Linnaeus 1758 jingle | |
Amusium mertoni scallop
Aequipecten camperis scallop | |
Nucula taphria Dall 1898 nut clam | |
Scaphopoda | |
Dentalium carolinensis tusk shell | |
Malacostraca | |
Decapoda indet. Latreille 1802 decapod |