Where: Broward County, Florida (26.1° N, 80.8° W: paleocoordinates 26.2° N, 80.0° 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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•3 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 75020: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Kate Bulinski on 13.09.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
"Transenella sp." = Transennella
"Transenella sp." = Transennella Dall 1884 venus clam | |
"Phacoides (Cardiolucina) cf. trisulcatus" = Cavilinga trisulcata
"Phacoides (Cardiolucina) cf. trisulcatus" = Cavilinga trisulcata Conrad 1841 clam subspecies multistriatus
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Venericardia (Pleuromeris) decemcostata Conrad 1867 clam |