F.G.S. Well 13, unit 1 [Caloosahatchee Fm] (Pleistocene of the United States)

Where: Glades County, Florida (27.0° N, 81.2° W: paleocoordinates 27.0° N, 80.8° W)

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Caloosahatchee Formation, Early/Lower Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.8 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Caloosahatchee Fm, which is in this section overlain by the Fort Thompson Fm (Late Pleistocene). AGE: Assigned to Early Pleistocene (A. Hendy, 2007). STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From Unit 1, a 30 ft thick sandy marl.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified, fine-grained, medium, shelly/skeletal, gray, sandy marl

• ENVIRONMENT: Shallow marine, siliciclastic.
• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Marl, sandy, calcareous, quartz grains fine to medium and subangular to rounded, gray; fossils well preserved and abundant. LITHIFICATION: Unlithified, based on facies description.

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: core,

• COLLECTOR: Florida Geological Survey, 1954. REPOSITORY: Not stated, but presumably the Florida Geological Survey.

Primary reference: J. R. DuBar. 1958. Stratigraphy and paleontology of the Late Neogene strata of the Caloosahatchee River area of southern Florida. Florida Geological Survey Bulletin 40:1-267 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 80002: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 31.03.2008

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Exhaustive for gastropoda and bivalvia. NOMENCLATURE: Reasonably modern nomenclature with species resolution assignments.
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Gastropoda
 Opisthobranchia - Bullidae
"Bulla occidentalis" = Bulla striata
"Bulla occidentalis" = Bulla striata Bruguiére 1792 snail
 Neotaenioglossa - Calyptraeidae
Crepidula fornicata
Crepidula fornicata Linnaeus 1758 slipper shell
 Cerithioidea - Cerithiidae
Cerithium muscarum
Cerithium muscarum Say 1832 cerith snail
 Neogastropoda - Columbellidae
Columbella rusticoides
Columbella rusticoides Heilprin 1887 snail
 Neogastropoda - Buccinidae
Hanetia mengeana
Hanetia mengeana Dall 1890 true whelk
 Neogastropoda - Nassariidae
Nassarius vibex
Nassarius vibex Say 1822 snail
 Neogastropoda - Olividae
Olivella mutica
Olivella mutica Say 1822 olive snail
 Neogastropoda - Marginellidae
Marginella pardalis
Marginella pardalis margin shell
 Heterostropha - Pyramidellidae
"Turbonilla" "sp. B"
"Turbonilla" "sp. B" Risso 1826 snail
Bivalvia
 Carditida - Carditidae
"Cardita floridana" = Carditamera floridana
"Cardita floridana" = Carditamera floridana Conrad 1838 clam
 Cardiida - Veneridae
"Pitar sayana" = Pitar morrhuanus, Anomalocardia caloosana, Chione cancellata, Transennella caloosana, "Macrocallista nimbosa" = Macrocallista (Macrocallista) nimbosa
"Pitar sayana" = Pitar morrhuanus Dall 1902 venus clam
Chione cancellata Linnaeus 1767 venus clam
"Macrocallista nimbosa" = Macrocallista (Macrocallista) nimbosa Solander 1786 venus clam
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
Laevicardium mortoni
Laevicardium mortoni Conrad 1831 cockle
 Cardiida - Tellinidae
Tellina "sp. B"
Tellina "sp. B" Linnaeus 1758 tellin clam
 Lucinida - Lucinidae
"Phacoides multilineatus" = Parvilucina multistriata
"Phacoides multilineatus" = Parvilucina multistriata Conrad 1841 clam
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
"Chlamys cf. gibbus" = Argopecten gibbus
"Chlamys cf. gibbus" = Argopecten gibbus Linnaeus 1758 calico scallop
 Arcida - Arcidae
Anadara campyla
Anadara campyla Dall 1898 ark