Where: Hillsborough County, Florida (27.7° N, 82.4° W: paleocoordinates 27.7° N, 82.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Bermont Formation, Middle Pleistocene (0.8 - 0.1 Ma)

• SOURCE: collection from 0.1 m thick "Bone bed", of the Bermont Formation. STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: overlies the "Lower Shell Bed" and is overlain by a dolomitic "hard layer", also of the Bermont Formation, and the "Upper Shell Bed" of the Fort Thompson Fm. BIOSTRATIGRAPHY: apparently an Early Pleistocene age; assigned to Middle Pleistocene by Petuch and Roberts (2007).

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

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

Size class: mesofossils

Preservation: original aragonite, original calcite

Reposited in the FMNH

Collection methods: bulk, quarrying,

• COLLECTOR: Morgan and Hulbert (1989). REPOSITORY: unknown repository, probably FMNH.

Primary reference: R.W. Portell, K.S. Schindler, and G.S. Morgan. 1992. The Pleistocene molluscan fauna from Leisley Shell Pit 1, Hillsborough County, Florida. Florida Geological Survey Special Publication 36: Plio-Pleistocene stratigraphy and paleontology of southern Florida [A. Miller/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 61310: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 04.06.2006

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