Where: Broward County, Florida (26.4° N, 80.9° W: paleocoordinates 26.5° N, 80.5° 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
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•9 feet below sea level
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•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
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 75005: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Kate Bulinski on 13.09.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Oliva sp. Bruguière 1789 olive snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Ostrea sp. Linnaeus 1758 oyster | |
Abra aequalis Say 1822 abra | |
Tellina sp. Linnaeus 1758 tellin clam | |
"Phacoides (Callucina) radians" = Callucina keenae
"Phacoides (Callucina) radians" = Callucina keenae Chavan 1971 clam |