Where: Pinellas County, Florida (27.8° N, 82.7° W: paleocoordinates 27.8° N, 82.3° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Caloosahatchee Formation, Early/Lower Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.8 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From unknown unit, but probably the Caloosahatchee Fm based on faunal content. AGE: Early Pleistocene. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Unknown position within formation.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified, shelly/skeletal sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: original aragonite, original calcite
Collected by Marcott and Olsson in 1962; reposited in the PRI
Collection methods: bulk, sieve,
• COLLECTOR: E. Marcott and A.A. Olsson, 1962. REPOSITORY: PRI, Ithaca, NY. FIDELITY: Moderate ecological fidelity. COMMENTS: Split 1 of 2.
Primary reference: A. J. W. Hendy, D. P. Buick, K. V. Bulinski, C. A. Ferguson, and A. I. Miller. 2008. Unpublished census data from Atlantic coastal plain and circum-Caribbean Neogene assemblages and taxonomic opinions. [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 80025: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 01.04.2008, edited by Kate Bulinski
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail | |
Calliostoma sp. Swainson 1840 top snail | |
"Turritella (Torcula) apicaulis" = Torcula, Vermicularia spirata
"Turritella (Torcula) apicaulis" = Torcula turret shell
Vermicularia spirata Philippi 1836 turret shell | |
"Crepidula aculeata" = Bostrycapulus aculeatus, Crucibulum (Dispotaea) multilineata, "Crucibulum imbricatum" = Crucibulum (Dispotaea) imbricata
"Crepidula aculeata" = Bostrycapulus aculeatus Gmelin 1791 slipper shell
Crucibulum (Dispotaea) multilineata slipper shell
"Crucibulum imbricatum" = Crucibulum (Dispotaea) imbricata Sowerby 1824 slipper shell [entered as Crucibulum imbriatum]
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Thericium trilicum snail | |
Latirus sp. Monfort 1810 snail | |
Busycon sp. Röding 1798 whelk | |
Marginella sp. Lamarck 1799 margin shell | |
Eupleura caudata Say 1822 murex snail | |
Strombus pugilis Linnaeus 1758 conch | |
Bivalvia | |
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam | |
Brachiodontes exustis mussel | |
Aequipecten fuscopurpureus, "Chlamys fuscopurpureus" = Lindapecten muscosus
Aequipecten fuscopurpureus scallop
"Chlamys fuscopurpureus" = Lindapecten muscosus Wood 1828 scallop | |
Anomia simplex d'Orbigny 1845 jingle | |
Ostrea disparilis oyster | |
"Chama striata" = Nanogyra (Palaeogyra) virgula
"Chama striata" = Nanogyra (Palaeogyra) virgula Deshayes 1831 oyster | |
Anadara sp. Gray 1847 ark
"Anadara lienosa" = Anadara (Rasia) lienosa Say 1832 ark
"Cunearca megerata" = Anadara (Cunearca) ark | |
Tucetona arata Conrad 1841 clam | |
Trachycardium sp. Mörch 1853 cockle | |
Chama gardnerae jewel box | |
"Chione (Chione) cribraria" = Chione cribraria, Chione (Chione) elevata, Macrocallista (Macrocallista) nimbosa
"Chione (Chione) cribraria" = Chione cribraria Conrad 1843 venus clam
Chione (Chione) elevata Say 1822 venus clam
Macrocallista (Macrocallista) nimbosa Solander 1786 venus clam | |
Mulinia lateralis Say 1822 clam
Rangia cuneata Sowerby 1831 clam | |
Stewartia anodonta Say 1824 clam | |
Carditamera arata Conrad 1832 clam |