Also known as Richardson Road shell pit
Where: Sarasota County, Florida (27.3° N, 82.4° W: paleocoordinates 27.4° N, 81.8° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Tamiami Formation, Late/Upper Pliocene (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Tamiami Formation, of which lithostratigraphic relations are not discussed. AGE: Late Pliocene. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From Bed 11 of Quality Aggregates pit section.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified, shelly/skeletal sandstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collected by Zullo
Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ),
• COLLECTOR: V. Zullo. REPOSITORY: University of North Carolina Wilmington.
Primary reference: V. A. Zullo. 1992. Revision of the balanid barnacle genus Concavus Newman, 1982, with the description of a new subfamily, two new genera, and eight new species. The Paleontological Society Memoir 27:1-46 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 160284: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 17.08.2014
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Thecostraca | |
Chesaconcavus tamiamiensis Ross 1965 barnacle
Arossia glyptopoma Pilsbry 1916 barnacle |