Where: Leon County, Florida (30.4° N, 84.6° W: paleocoordinates 30.5° N, 84.0° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Jackson Bluff Formation (Alum Bluff Group), Late/Upper Pliocene (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)
• Very near top of section in Chione rich pocket
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified, shelly/skeletal, brown, sandy marl
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: original aragonite
Collected by Jones; reposited in the MCZ
Collection methods: bulk, sieve,
• COLLECTOR: Carol Jones, ~1970's. REPOSITORY: MCZ, Harvard. FIDELITY: High ecologic fidelity.
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 Unpublished census data from Atlantic coastal plain and circum-Caribbean Neogene assemblages and taxonomic opinions.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 80039: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Kate Bulinski on 01.04.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea | |
Dendraster sp. Agassiz and Desor 1847 sand dollar | |
Bivalvia | |
Noetia incile Say 1824 clam | |
Dallarca alomensis clam | |
Costaglycymeris subovata Say 1824 clam
Glycymeris americana Defrance 1826 clam | |
Conradostrea sculpturata Conrad 1840 oyster
Ostrea disparilis oyster | |
"Plicatula marginata" = Plicatula gibbosa
"Plicatula marginata" = Plicatula gibbosa Lamarck 1801 scallop | |
Pecten ochlockoneensis scallop | |
Mulinia congesta Conrad 1833 clam | |
"Lirophora latilirata" = Lirophora (Lirophora) latilirata, Lirophora ulocyma, Chione erosa, Pitar sp., "Transenella carolinensis" = Transennella
"Lirophora latilirata" = Lirophora (Lirophora) latilirata Conrad 1841 venus clam
Lirophora ulocyma Dall 1895 venus clam
Chione erosa venus clam
Pitar sp. Römer 1857 venus clam
"Transenella carolinensis" = Transennella venus clam | |
Chama spinosa jewel box
Chama congregata Conrad 1833 jewel box | |
Semele alumensis clam | |
Cardiidae indet. Lamarck 1809 cockle | |
"Corbula cf. chipolana" = Varicorbula chipolana, "Caryocorbula inaequalis" = Corbula inaequalis, Caryocorbula cuneata
"Caryocorbula inaequalis" = Corbula inaequalis Say 1824 clam
Caryocorbula cuneata Say 1824 clam | |
Cyclocardia granulata Say 1824 clam
Carditamera arata Conrad 1832 clam | |
Astarte floridana Dall 1903 clam | |
Gastropoda | |
Calliostoma philonthopus top snail |