Well 1 Glades County (Pleistocene of the United States)

Where: Glades County, Florida (26.8° N, 81.1° W: paleocoordinates 26.8° N, 80.7° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Caloosahatchee Formation, Early/Lower Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.8 Ma)

• Determined from cores from test wells drilled by US Corps of Engineers in 1950

•1 foot below sea level

•Age determination revised in more recent papers (see Lithostratigraphy, Petrography,

•Biostratigraphy, and Strontium-Isotope

•Stratigraphy of the Surficial Aquifer System

•of Western Collier County, Florida, Edwards et al., 1998, USGS Open-File Report 98-205)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; gray, white, silty, sandy marl

• The Caloosahatchee marl consists predominantly of shells, sand, and silt. Fresh unweathered exposures are generally pale cream-colored to light gray, although green clay marls have been included in the formation. The sand and shell variations of the Caloosahatchee marl can be separated from the marine formations of Pleistocene age only by identification of the mollusk faunas.

Size class: mesofossils

Collection methods: core

• observed from cores

Primary reference: M. C. Schroeder and H. Klein. 1954. Geology of the Western Everglades Area, Southern Florida. United States Geological Survey Circular 314 [A. Miller/K. Bulinski/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 74999: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Kate Bulinski on 13.09.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Sedentaria
 Sabellida - Serpulidae
Serpula sp. Linnaeus 1758
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
"Ostrea cf. sculpturata" = Conradostrea sculpturata
"Ostrea cf. sculpturata" = Conradostrea sculpturata Conrad 1840 oyster
 Arcida - Arcidae
Anadara sp. Gray 1847 ark
 Arcida - Noetiidae
Arcopsis adamsi Dall 1886 clam
 Lucinida - Lucinidae
Phacoides (Bellucina) tuomeyi, "Phacoides (Parvilucina) multilineatus" = Parvilucina multistriata
"Phacoides (Parvilucina) multilineatus" = Parvilucina multistriata Conrad 1841 clam
 Pholadida - Corbulidae
Corbula sp. Bruguière 1789 clam
 Cardiida - Veneridae
Gemma magna Dall 1903 venus clam
Chione cancellata Linnaeus 1767 venus clam
Venus sp. Linnaeus 1758 venus clam
 Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Nuculana cf. acuta Conrad 1832 pointed nut clam
Gastropoda
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
 Cerithioidea - Cerithiidae
 Neotaenioglossa - Calyptraeidae
Calyptraea centralis Conrad 1841 slipper shell
 Neogastropoda - Cancellariidae
Cancellaria conradiana Dall 1890 snail
 Neogastropoda - Marginellidae
"Marginella precursor" = Marginella (Leptegonana) precursor
"Marginella precursor" = Marginella (Leptegonana) precursor Dall 1890 margin shell
 Neogastropoda - Drilliidae
 Neogastropoda - Terebridae
"Terebra concava" = Strioterebrum concava
"Terebra concava" = Strioterebrum concava Say 1827 auger snail
 Neogastropoda - Mitridae
Mitra sp. Lamarck 1798 mitre shell
 Neogastropoda - Columbellidae
Mitrella sp. Risso 1826 snail