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
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
Thecostraca | |
Balanus sp. Da Costa 1778 barnacle | |
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 | |
Melanella sp. Bowdich 1822 snail | |
"Crepidula aculeata" = Bostrycapulus aculeatus, Crepidula maculosa, "Crucibulum auriculum" = Crucibulum (Crucibulum) auricula
"Crepidula aculeata" = Bostrycapulus aculeatus Gmelin 1791 slipper shell
Crepidula maculosa Conrad 1846 slipper shell
"Crucibulum auriculum" = Crucibulum (Crucibulum) auricula Gmelin 1791 slipper shell | |
Strombus alatus Gmelin 1792 conch | |
"Marginella eulima" = Prunum roscidum, Marginella pardalis
"Marginella eulima" = Prunum roscidum Redfield 1860 margin shell
Marginella pardalis margin shell | |
Trophon lepidota murex snail | |
Persicula ovula Conrad 1848 snail | |
Melongena sp. Schumacher 1817 snail | |
Nassarius bidentatus snail | |
"Fasciolaria scalarina" = Fasciolaria (Triplofusus) scalarina
"Fasciolaria scalarina" = Fasciolaria (Triplofusus) scalarina Heilprin 1887 tulip snail | |
Brachycythara terminula snail | |
Polystira albida Perry 1811 turrid | |
"Natica canrena" = Naticarius canrena, Tectonatica pusilla
"Natica canrena" = Naticarius canrena Linnaeus 1758 moon snail
Tectonatica pusilla Say 1822 moon snail | |
Teinostoma tectispira snail | |
Rissoina bulimina snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Nuculana acuta Conrad 1832 pointed nut clam | |
"Nucula proxima" = Nucula (Nucula) proxima
"Nucula proxima" = Nucula (Nucula) proxima Say 1820 Atlantic Nut Clam | |
"Ostrea sculpturata" = Conradostrea sculpturata, Crassostrea virginica
"Ostrea sculpturata" = Conradostrea sculpturata Conrad 1840 oyster
Crassostrea virginica Gmelin 1791 oyster | |
Anomia simplex d'Orbigny 1845 jingle | |
"Fossularca adamsi" = Arcopsis adamsi
"Fossularca adamsi" = Arcopsis adamsi Dall 1886 clam | |
"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 | |
"Phacoides waccamawensis" = Bellucina waccamawensis
"Phacoides waccamawensis" = Bellucina waccamawensis Dall 1903 clam | |
Caryocorbula leonensis, "Varicorbula caloosae" = Corbula (Varicorbula)
"Varicorbula caloosae" = Corbula (Varicorbula) clam | |
Mulinia lateralis, "Rangia nasuta" = Rangia cuneata
Mulinia lateralis Say 1822 clam
"Rangia nasuta" = Rangia cuneata Sowerby 1831 clam | |
Gouldia cf. metastriata, "Chione grus" = Timoclea grus, "Dosinia elegans" = Dosinia (Dosinidia) elegans, Chione cancellata
"Chione grus" = Timoclea grus Holmes 1858 venus clam
"Dosinia elegans" = Dosinia (Dosinidia) elegans Conrad 1838 venus clam
Chione cancellata Linnaeus 1767 venus clam | |
Trigoniocardia willcoxi cockle | |
Tellina sp., "Tellina tayloriana" = Tellina (Eurytellina) tayloriana
Tellina sp. Linnaeus 1758 tellin clam
"Tellina tayloriana" = Tellina (Eurytellina) tayloriana Sowerby 1867 tellin clam | |
Crassinella acuta clam | |
Foraminifera | |
"Foraminiferida indet." = Foraminifera
"Foraminiferida indet." = Foraminifera Eichwald 1830 foram |