YPM Loc. A-918 [Fort Thompson Fm] (Pleistocene of the United States)

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

• ENVIRONMENT: Shallow-marine, siliciclastic environment.
• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Siliciclastic, shelly. LITHIFICATION: Unlithified, based on observation of specimens.

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 Unpublished census data from Atlantic coastal plain and circum-Caribbean Neogene assemblages and taxonomic opinions.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

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Taxonomic list

• TAXONOMY: Identified by A. Hendy; nomenclature based on revision of DuBar (1962) [PBDB Ref# 11119] and Portell et al. (1992) [PBDB Ref# 17634].
Gastropoda
 Opisthobranchia - Bullidae
Bulla striata BruguiƩre 1792 snail
 Neogastropoda - Nassariidae
"Nassarius (Nassarius) vibex" = Nassarius vibex
"Nassarius (Nassarius) vibex" = Nassarius vibex Say 1822 snail
 Neogastropoda - Muricidae
Urosalpinx sp. Stimpson 1865 murex snail
Bivalvia
 Cardiida - Veneridae
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
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
"Laevicardium laevigatum" = Laevicardium serratum
"Laevicardium laevigatum" = Laevicardium serratum Linnaeus 1758 cockle
 Cardiida - Tellinidae
"Eurytellina sp." = Tellina (Eurytellina)
"Eurytellina sp." = Tellina (Eurytellina) Fischer 1887 tellin clam
 Lucinida - Lucinidae
Stewartia anodonta Say 1824 clam
 Carditida - Carditidae
Carditamera floridana Conrad 1838 clam