Where: Hillsborough County, Florida (27.7° N, 82.4° W: paleocoordinates 27.8° N, 82.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Fort Thompson Formation, Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

• SOURCE: collection from 3.0 m thick "Upper Shell bed", of the Fort Thompson Formation. STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: overlies the dolomitic "hard layer" and "bone beds" of the Bermont Formation. AGE: Assigned to Late Pleistocene (A. Hendy, 2007).

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified, shelly/skeletal, brown, sandy mixed carbonate-siliciclastic sediments

Size class: mesofossils

Preservation: original aragonite, original calcite

Reposited in the FLMNH

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

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

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 61311: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 04.06.2006, edited by Mark Uhen

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