Where: Palm Beach County, Florida (26.7° N, 80.4° W: paleocoordinates 26.6° N, 80.5° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Anastasia Formation, Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: Presumably from Anastasia Fm. AGE: Late Pleistocene. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Unknown position within formation. See Sellards (1912) for original description - Sellards, E. H., 1912, Florida Geological Survey Fourth Annual Report, p. 1-79.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified, shelly/skeletal, sandy siltstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: original aragonite, original calcite
Collected by Sleight in 1948; reposited in the PRI
Collection methods: bulk, sieve,
• COLLECTOR: V.G. Sleight, 1948. REPOSITORY: PRI.
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 Unpublished census data from Atlantic coastal plain and circum-Caribbean Neogene assemblages and taxonomic opinions.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 70010: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 14.03.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
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Mulinia sapotila clam | |
"Anomalocardia auberiana" = Anomalocardia cuneimeris, Chione cancellata, Transennella stimpsoni, Pitar simpsoni
"Anomalocardia auberiana" = Anomalocardia cuneimeris Conrad 1846 venus clam
Chione cancellata Linnaeus 1767 venus clam
Transennella stimpsoni Dall 1902 venus clam
Pitar simpsoni Dall 1895 venus clam | |
"Eurytellina sp." = Tellina (Eurytellina), "Tellinella sp." = Tellina (Tellinella)
"Eurytellina sp." = Tellina (Eurytellina) Fischer 1887 tellin clam
"Tellinella sp." = Tellina (Tellinella) Mörch 1853 tellin clam | |
"Laevicardium laevigatum" = Laevicardium serratum, "Trachycardium muricatum" = Trachycardium (Dallocardia) muricatum
"Laevicardium laevigatum" = Laevicardium serratum Linnaeus 1758 cockle
"Trachycardium muricatum" = Trachycardium (Dallocardia) muricatum Linnaeus 1758 cockle | |
Caryocorbula contracta Say 1822 clam | |
Tucetona pectinata Gmelin 1791 clam | |
Gastropoda | |
Vermicularia spirata Philippi 1836 turret shell | |
Modulus modulus Linnaeus 1758 snail | |
Cerithium muscarum Say 1832 cerith snail | |
Strombus alatus Gmelin 1792 conch | |
"Terebra dislocata" = Strioterebrum dislocatum
"Terebra dislocata" = Strioterebrum dislocatum Say 1822 auger snail | |
"Marginella" sp. Lamarck 1799 margin shell | |
Olivella mutica Say 1822 olive snail | |
"Costoanachis sp." = Anachis (Costoanachis)
"Costoanachis sp." = Anachis (Costoanachis) Sacco 1890 snail |