Well 16b Hendry County (Pliocene of the United States)

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

•10 ft 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; shelly/skeletal, silty, sandy marl

• Changes laterally from shelly marl to soft silty limestone to the silty sand and clayey 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
 Neogastropoda - Olividae
Bivalvia
 Lucinida - Lucinidae
"Phacoides (Cardiolucina) multistriatus" = Cardiolucina
"Phacoides (Cardiolucina) multistriatus" = Cardiolucina clam
 Cardiida - Veneridae
Chione cancellata Linnaeus 1767 venus clam
 Cardiida - Mactridae
Mulinia congesta Conrad 1833 clam
 Carditida - Crassatellidae
Eucrassatella sp. Iredale 1924 clam
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
"Pecten eboreus" = Carolinapecten eboreus
"Pecten eboreus" = Carolinapecten eboreus Conrad 1833 scallop
 Arcida - Arcidae