Where: Hendry County, Florida (26.6° N, 80.9° W: paleocoordinates 26.7° N, 80.1° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Tamiami Formation, Pliocene (5.3 - 2.6 Ma)
• Determined from cores from test wells drilled by US Corps of Engineers in 1950
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•10 ft 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; shelly/skeletal, 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 75014: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Kate Bulinski on 13.09.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Oliva cf. carolinae olive snail | |
Bivalvia | |
"Phacoides (Cardiolucina) multistriatus" = Cardiolucina
"Phacoides (Cardiolucina) multistriatus" = Cardiolucina clam | |
Chione cancellata Linnaeus 1767 venus clam | |
Mulinia congesta Conrad 1833 clam | |
Eucrassatella sp. Iredale 1924 clam | |
"Pecten eboreus" = Carolinapecten eboreus
"Pecten eboreus" = Carolinapecten eboreus Conrad 1833 scallop | |