Where: Collier County, Florida (26.0° N, 81.1° W: paleocoordinates 26.1° N, 80.5° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Pinecrest Member (Tamiami Formation), Late/Upper Pliocene (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From Pinecrest beds ?=Pinecrest Mbr. AGE: Late Pliocene. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Unknown position within formation.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified, shelly/skeletal sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: original aragonite, original calcite
Reposited in the PRI, UNSM
Collection methods: bulk,
• COLLECTOR: Many collectiors, including P. and T. McGinty, R. C. Hoerle, J. Donovan, M. Nelson, El Crovo, C. Edwards, and presumably A. Olsson. REPOSITORY: Some material reposited at USNM and PRI, but also among private collections.
Primary reference: A. A. Olsson. 1967. Some Tertiary mollusks from South Florida and the Carribean. Paleontological Research Institute 1-61 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 79762: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 23.03.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Cardita (Cardita) seminolensis Olsson 1967 clam | |
"Arca (Arca) aquila" = Arca aquila
"Arca (Arca) aquila" = Arca aquila Heilprin 1887 ark | |
Gastropoda | |
Turritella gladeensis turret shell | |
"Microspira oliviformis" = Prunum (Microspira), Microspira donovani
"Microspira oliviformis" = Prunum (Microspira) margin shell
Microspira donovani Olsson 1967 margin shell | |
"Cancellaria (Massyla) propevenusta" = Massyla propevenusta
"Cancellaria (Massyla) propevenusta" = Massyla propevenusta Mansfield 1930 snail | |
Cymatosyrinx aclinica Tucker and Wilson 1933 snail | |
Hindsia pyta true whelk
Metula roberti Olsson 1967 true whelk |