Brighton facies, Slough Ditch, about five miles east of Brighton (Pliocene of the United States)

Where: Osceola County, Florida (28.2° N, 81.0° W: paleocoordinates 28.3° N, 80.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: N19-20 foram zone, Pinecrest Member (Tamiami Formation), Late/Upper Pliocene (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified, shelly/skeletal sandstone

• ENVIRONMENT: Shallow-marine, siliciclastic environment.
• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Sandstone, shelly. LITHIFICATION: Unlithified, based on observation of specimens.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original aragonite, original calcite

Reposited in the PRI, UNSM

Collection methods: bulk,

• COLLECTOR: Many collectiors, including P. and T. McGinty, R. C. Hoerle, J. Donovan, M. Nelson, El Crovo, C. Edwards, and presumably A. Olsson. REPOSITORY: Some material reposited at USNM and PRI, but also among private collections.

Primary reference: A. A. Olsson and R. E. Petit. 1964. Some Neogene Mollusca from Florida and the Carolinas. Bulletins of American Paleontology 47(217):509-575 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 179337: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 13.06.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Exhaustive for gastropoda and bivalvia. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication with subgenus and species resolution assignments and modern nomenclature.
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Gastropoda
 Neogastropoda - Cancellariidae
Cancellaria (Cancellaria) rotunda
Cancellaria (Cancellaria) rotunda Dall 1892 snail
Cancellaria (Caneellaria) rotunda floridana
 Sorbeoconcha - Cypraeidae
"Siphocypraea hughesi n. sp." = Akleistostoma hughesi
"Siphocypraea hughesi n. sp." = Akleistostoma hughesi Olsson and Petit 1964 cowry
Siphocypraea (Siphocypraea) carolinensis hughesi