PRI Loc. 1754 (sample 22, repilcate B) - Anastasia Fm (Pleistocene of the United States)

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

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

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 Unpublished census data from Atlantic coastal plain and circum-Caribbean Neogene assemblages and taxonomic opinions.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

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Taxonomic list

• TAXONOMY: Identified by A. Hendy; nomenclature based on revision of Abbott (1974) [PBDB Ref# 19379].
Bivalvia
 Lucinida - Lucinidae
Stewartia anodonta Say 1824 clam
COMMENTS: Listed as "S. floridana"
 Cardiida - Mactridae
 Cardiida - Veneridae
"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
 Cardiida - Tellinidae
"Eurytellina sp." = Tellina (Eurytellina), "Tellinella sp." = Tellina (Tellinella)
"Eurytellina sp." = Tellina (Eurytellina) Fischer 1887 tellin clam
"Tellinella sp." = Tellina (Tellinella) Mörch 1853 tellin clam
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
"Laevicardium laevigatum" = Laevicardium serratum, "Trachycardium muricatum" = Trachycardium (Dallocardia) muricatum
"Laevicardium laevigatum" = Laevicardium serratum Linnaeus 1758 cockle
"Trachycardium muricatum" = Trachycardium (Dallocardia) muricatum Linnaeus 1758 cockle
 Pholadida - Corbulidae
 Arcida - Glycymerididae
Tucetona pectinata Gmelin 1791 clam
Gastropoda
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
Vermicularia spirata Philippi 1836 turret shell
 Cerithioidea - Modulidae
Modulus modulus Linnaeus 1758 snail
 Cerithioidea - Cerithiidae
Cerithium muscarum Say 1832 cerith snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Strombidae
Strombus alatus Gmelin 1792 conch
 Neogastropoda - Terebridae
"Terebra dislocata" = Strioterebrum dislocatum
"Terebra dislocata" = Strioterebrum dislocatum Say 1822 auger snail
 Neogastropoda - Marginellidae
"Marginella" sp. Lamarck 1799 margin shell
 Neogastropoda - Olividae
Olivella mutica Say 1822 olive snail
 Neogastropoda - Columbellidae
"Costoanachis sp." = Anachis (Costoanachis)
"Costoanachis sp." = Anachis (Costoanachis) Sacco 1890 snail