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 4, a 10 ft thick sandy marl.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; poorly lithified, shelly/skeletal, gray, green, 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 80355: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 13.04.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Helisoma scalare snail | |
Acteocina canaliculata Say 1826 barrel-bubble | |
Bivalvia | |
"Chlamys cf. fuscopurpureus" = Lindapecten muscosus
"Chlamys cf. fuscopurpureus" = Lindapecten muscosus Wood 1828 scallop | |
"Glycymeris arata" = Tucetona arata
"Glycymeris arata" = Tucetona arata Conrad 1841 clam | |
Anomalocardia caloosana venus clam
Chione cancellata Linnaeus 1767 venus clam | |
Thecostraca | |
Balanus sp. Da Costa 1778 barnacle |