Quality Aggregates Phase 6 Pit (Pliocene of the United States)

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: Buckingham Member (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.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• ENVIRONMENT: Shallow-marine, siliciclastic environment.
• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Sand facies. LITHIFICATION: Unlithified, based on figured specimens.

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: E. J. Petuch. 2003. Cenozoic Seas: The View From Eastern North America [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 179591: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 21.06.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Limited to taxa described in text, and subsequent publications. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication with modern nomenclature and species-resolution identifications.
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unclassified
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Planecphora mansfieldi
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Rhizangiidae
Phyllangia blakei, Astrangia leonensis
Phyllangia blakei Wells 1947 stony coral
Astrangia leonensis Weisbord 1971 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Caryophylliidae
Paracyathus vaughani
Paracyathus vaughani Gane 1895 stony coral
Gastropoda
 Neogastropoda - Muricidae
Ecphora quadricostata, Pterorhytis marshalli
Ecphora quadricostata Conrad 1830 murex snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Cypraeidae
Akleistostoma erici
Akleistostoma erici Petuch 1998 cowry