Unit B, Shell Creek [Caloosahatchee Fm] (Pleistocene of the United States)
Where: Charlotte County, Florida (26.9° N, 82.0° W: paleocoordinates 26.9° N, 81.7° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Caloosahatchee Formation, Early/Lower Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.8 Ma)
• COMMENTS: The Caloosahatchee Marl is given the local stage age of Sangamonian. AGE: Assigned Late Pleistocene in text, reassigned to Early Pleistocene by A. Hendy (2007).
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; unlithified, phosphatic, gray, sandy, calcareous marl
• unconsolidated, fossiliferous marine marl, light olive-gray on a fresh surface, sandy, calcareous, and slightly phosphatic
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: bulk,
Primary reference: J. R. DuBar. 1962. Neogene Biostratigraphy of the Charlotte Harbor Area in Southwestern Florida. Florida Geological Survey Geological Bulletin 43 1-83 [A. Miller/K. Layou/K. Layou]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 41497: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 15.07.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
• this list is a composite of all collections of Unit B along Shell Creek; in the text, author provides percent abundance information for pelecypods and gastropods of Unit B along Shell Creek separately, and taxa with less than 1.0 percent are listed as simply present; entered data includes taxa and relative abundance information from p. 23 and occurrence data from checklist on p. 60
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| Gastropoda | |
"Cerithium algicola" = Cerithium eburneum
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"Alabina cerithidioides" = Finella dubia, "Alabina adamsi" = Finella adamsi
"Alabina cerithidioides" = Finella dubia d'Orbigny 1840 snail
"Alabina adamsi" = Finella adamsi Dall 1889 snail | |
Turritella apicalis, Turritella subannulata, "Turritella perattenuata" = Turritella (Bactrospira) perattenuata, Vermicularia sp.
Turritella apicalis turret shell
Turritella subannulata turret shell
"Turritella perattenuata" = Turritella (Bactrospira) perattenuata Heilprin 1886 turret shell
Vermicularia sp. Lamarck 1799 turret shell | |
Tectonatica pusilla, "Natica canrena" = Naticarius canrena
Tectonatica pusilla Say 1822 moon snail
"Natica canrena" = Naticarius canrena Linnaeus 1758 moon snail | |
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Strombus alatus Gmelin 1792 conch | |
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Persicula ovula Conrad 1848 snail | |
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Trophon lepidota murex snail | |
Marginella pardalis, "Marginella eulima" = Prunum roscidum
Marginella pardalis margin shell
"Marginella eulima" = Prunum roscidum Redfield 1860 margin shell | |
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Polystira albida Perry 1811 turrid | |
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Brachycythara terminula snail | |
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Nassarius bidentatus snail | |
"Fasciolaria scalarina" = Fasciolaria (Triplofusus) scalarina
"Fasciolaria scalarina" = Fasciolaria (Triplofusus) scalarina Heilprin 1887 tulip snail | |
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Melongena sp. Schumacher 1817 snail | |
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Teinostoma tectispira snail | |
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Rissoina bulimina snail | |
"Crucibulum auriculum" = Crucibulum (Crucibulum) auricula, Crepidula maculosa, "Crepidula aculeata" = Bostrycapulus aculeatus
"Crucibulum auriculum" = Crucibulum (Crucibulum) auricula Gmelin 1791 slipper shell
Crepidula maculosa Conrad 1846 slipper shell
"Crepidula aculeata" = Bostrycapulus aculeatus Gmelin 1791 slipper shell | |
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Melanella sp. Bowdich 1822 snail | |
| Bivalvia | |
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Nuculana acuta Conrad 1832 pointed nut clam | |
"Nucula proxima" = Nucula (Nucula) proxima
"Nucula proxima" = Nucula (Nucula) proxima Say 1820 Atlantic Nut Clam | |
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Crassinella acuta clam | |
Mulinia lateralis, "Rangia nasuta" = Rangia cuneata
Mulinia lateralis Say 1822 clam
"Rangia nasuta" = Rangia cuneata Sowerby 1831 clam | |
Gouldia cf. metastriata, Chione cancellata, "Chione grus" = Timoclea grus, "Dosinia elegans" = Dosinia (Dosinidia) elegans
Chione cancellata Linnaeus 1767 venus clam
"Chione grus" = Timoclea grus Holmes 1858 venus clam
"Dosinia elegans" = Dosinia (Dosinidia) elegans Conrad 1838 venus clam | |
Tellina sp., "Tellina tayloriana" = Tellina (Eurytellina) tayloriana
Tellina sp. Linnaeus 1758 tellin clam
"Tellina tayloriana" = Tellina (Eurytellina) tayloriana Sowerby 1867 tellin clam | |
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Trigoniocardia willcoxi cockle | |
"Varicorbula caloosae" = Corbula (Varicorbula), Caryocorbula leonensis
"Varicorbula caloosae" = Corbula (Varicorbula) clam | |
"Phacoides waccamawensis" = Bellucina waccamawensis
"Phacoides waccamawensis" = Bellucina waccamawensis Dall 1903 clam | |
"Ostrea sculpturata" = Conradostrea sculpturata, Crassostrea virginica
"Ostrea sculpturata" = Conradostrea sculpturata Conrad 1840 oyster
Crassostrea virginica Gmelin 1791 oyster | |
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Anomia simplex d'Orbigny 1845 jingle | |
"Barbatia taeniata" = Calloarca (Taeniarca) taeniata, "Anadara rustica" = Anadara (Caloosarca) rustica
"Barbatia taeniata" = Calloarca (Taeniarca) taeniata Dall 1898 clam
"Anadara rustica" = Anadara (Caloosarca) rustica Tuomey and Holmes 1857 ark | |
"Fossularca adamsi" = Arcopsis adamsi
"Fossularca adamsi" = Arcopsis adamsi Dall 1886 clam | |
| Thecostraca | |
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Balanus sp. Da Costa 1778 barnacle | |
| Foraminifera | |
"Foraminiferida indet." = Foraminifera
"Foraminiferida indet." = Foraminifera Eichwald 1830 foram | |