Where: Glades County, Florida (27.0° N, 81.2° W: paleocoordinates 27.0° N, 80.8° W)
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Fort Thompson Formation, Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From Fort Thompson Fm, which is in this section overlain by the Pamlico Fm (Late Pleistocene) and overlies the Caloosahatchee Fm (Early Pleistocene). AGE: Assigned to Late Pleistocene (A. Hendy, 2007). STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From Unit 5 a 10 ft thick sandy marl.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; poorly lithified, medium-grained, shelly/skeletal, 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 80356: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 13.04.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
"Phacoides multilineatus" = Parvilucina multistriata
"Phacoides multilineatus" = Parvilucina multistriata Conrad 1841 clam | |
Chione cancellata Linnaeus 1767 venus clam | |
Gastropoda | |
Physa sp. Draparnaud 1801 snail | |
Helisoma scalare snail | |
Acteocina canaliculata Say 1826 barrel-bubble |