Where: Glades County, Florida (26.8° N, 81.3° W: paleocoordinates 26.8° N, 81.3° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Fort Thompson Formation, Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From Fort Thompson Fm. AGE: Assigned to Late Pleistocene (A. Hendy, 2007). STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Unknown position within formation. According to collection notes, in addition to belonging to Fort Thompson Fm, the collection is from the "1st interglacial". Possibly not Fort Thompson but undifferentiated Pleistocene (Late Pleistocene?)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified, shelly/skeletal siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: original aragonite, original calcite
Reposited in the YPM
Collection methods: bulk, sieve,
• COLLECTOR: C.O. Dunbar, 1965. REPOSITORY: YPM.
Primary reference: A. J. W. Hendy, D. P. Buick, K. V. Bulinski, C. A. Ferguson, and A. I. Miller. 2008. Unpublished census data from Atlantic coastal plain and circum-Caribbean Neogene assemblages and taxonomic opinions. [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 69038: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 15.02.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Bulla striata BruguiƩre 1792 snail | |
"Nassarius (Nassarius) vibex" = Nassarius vibex
"Nassarius (Nassarius) vibex" = Nassarius vibex Say 1822 snail | |
Urosalpinx sp. Stimpson 1865 murex snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Pitar simpsoni, Transennella stimpsoni, "Anomalocardia auberiana" = Anomalocardia cuneimeris, Chione cancellata
Pitar simpsoni Dall 1895 venus clam
Transennella stimpsoni Dall 1902 venus clam
"Anomalocardia auberiana" = Anomalocardia cuneimeris Conrad 1846 venus clam
Chione cancellata Linnaeus 1767 venus clam | |
"Laevicardium laevigatum" = Laevicardium serratum
"Laevicardium laevigatum" = Laevicardium serratum Linnaeus 1758 cockle | |
"Eurytellina sp." = Tellina (Eurytellina)
"Eurytellina sp." = Tellina (Eurytellina) Fischer 1887 tellin clam | |
Stewartia anodonta Say 1824 clam | |
Carditamera floridana Conrad 1838 clam |