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
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
Gastropoda | |
"Bulla occidentalis" = Bulla striata
"Bulla occidentalis" = Bulla striata BruguiƩre 1792 snail | |
Crepidula fornicata Linnaeus 1758 slipper shell | |
Cerithium muscarum Say 1832 cerith snail | |
Columbella rusticoides Heilprin 1887 snail | |
Hanetia mengeana Dall 1890 true whelk | |
Nassarius vibex Say 1822 snail | |
Olivella mutica Say 1822 olive snail | |
Marginella pardalis margin shell | |
"Turbonilla" "sp. B" Risso 1826 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
"Cardita floridana" = Carditamera floridana
"Cardita floridana" = Carditamera floridana Conrad 1838 clam | |
"Pitar sayana" = Pitar morrhuanus, Anomalocardia caloosana, Chione cancellata, Transennella caloosana, "Macrocallista nimbosa" = Macrocallista (Macrocallista) nimbosa
"Pitar sayana" = Pitar morrhuanus Dall 1902 venus clam
Anomalocardia caloosana venus clam
Chione cancellata Linnaeus 1767 venus clam
Transennella caloosana venus clam
"Macrocallista nimbosa" = Macrocallista (Macrocallista) nimbosa Solander 1786 venus clam | |
Laevicardium mortoni Conrad 1831 cockle | |
Tellina "sp. B" Linnaeus 1758 tellin clam | |
"Phacoides multilineatus" = Parvilucina multistriata
"Phacoides multilineatus" = Parvilucina multistriata Conrad 1841 clam | |
"Chlamys cf. gibbus" = Argopecten gibbus
"Chlamys cf. gibbus" = Argopecten gibbus Linnaeus 1758 calico scallop | |
Anadara campyla Dall 1898 ark |