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 3, a 10 ft thick sandy marl.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified, shelly/skeletal, white, sandy, calcareous 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 80357: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 13.04.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Nuculana acuta Conrad 1832 pointed nut clam | |
Chione gardnerae venus clam
Chione cancellata Linnaeus 1767 venus clam
"Chione grus" = Timoclea grus Holmes 1858 venus clam | |
"Varicorbula caloosae" = Corbula (Varicorbula), Caryocorbula leonensis
"Varicorbula caloosae" = Corbula (Varicorbula) clam | |
"Phacoides waccamawensis" = Bellucina waccamawensis
"Phacoides waccamawensis" = Bellucina waccamawensis Dall 1903 clam | |
"Cardita arata" = Carditamera arata, "Cardita tridentata" = Pleuromeris tridentata
"Cardita arata" = Carditamera arata Conrad 1832 clam
"Cardita tridentata" = Pleuromeris tridentata Say 1826 clam | |
"Chlamys anteamplicostatus" = Argopecten anteamplicostata
"Chlamys anteamplicostatus" = Argopecten anteamplicostata Mansfield 1936 calico scallop | |
"Glycymeris arata" = Tucetona arata
"Glycymeris arata" = Tucetona arata Conrad 1841 clam | |
Gastropoda | |
Physa sp. Draparnaud 1801 snail | |
Turritella subannulata turret shell | |
Crepidula cf. fornicata Linnaeus 1758 slipper shell | |
Marginella pardalis margin shell | |
Nassarius bidentata, "Nassarius cf. floridensis" = Nassarius antillarum
Nassarius bidentata snail
"Nassarius cf. floridensis" = Nassarius antillarum d'Orbigny 1847 snail | |
"Conus stearnsii" = Conus jaspideus
"Conus stearnsii" = Conus jaspideus Gmelin 1791 cone shell |