PBDB Collection

Caloosahatchee River and Shell Creek (Pliocene to of the United States)

Where: Florida (26.7° N, 81.5° W: paleocoordinates 26.8° N, 81.1° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Caloosahatchee Formation, Late/Upper Pliocene to Late/Upper Pliocene (3.6 - 0.8 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; sandy marl and shelly/skeletal, calcareous sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: N. E. Weisbord. 1974. Late Cenozoic corals of south Florida. Bulletins of American Paleontology 66(285):259-544 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 85449: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 19.12.2008

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Taxonomic list

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Anthozoa
Scleractinia - Poritidae	Porites porites, Porites divaricata, Porites furcata Porites porites Pallas 1766 stony coral Porites divaricata Lesueur 1820 stony coral Porites furcata Lamarck 1816 stony coral
Scleractinia - Siderastreidae	Siderastrea dalli, Siderastrea pliocenica Siderastrea dalli Vaughan 1919 stony coral Siderastrea pliocenica Vaughan 1919 stony coral
Scleractinia - Meandrinidae	Meandrina meandrites, Dichocoenia caloosahatcheensis n. sp., Dichocoenia eminens n. sp. Meandrina meandrites Linnaeus 1758 stony coral Dichocoenia caloosahatcheensis n. sp. Weisbord 1974 stony coral Dichocoenia eminens n. sp. Weisbord 1974 stony coral
Scleractinia - Merulinidae	Cladocora johnsoni Cladocora johnsoni Gane 1895 stony coral
Scleractinia - Rhizangiidae	Astrangia floridana, Septastrea marylandica, Septastrea crassa, Phyllangia americana Astrangia floridana Gane 1895 stony coral Septastrea marylandica Conrad 1841 stony coral Septastrea crassa Holmes 1860 stony coral Phyllangia americana Milne-Edwards and Haime 1849 stony coral
Scleractinia - Faviidae	Solenastrea hyades, Solenastrea bournoni, "Thysanus floridanus n. sp." = Thysanus corbicula Solenastrea hyades Dana 1846 stony coral Solenastrea bournoni Milne-Edwards and Haime 1849 stony coral "Thysanus floridanus n. sp." = Thysanus corbicula Duncan 1863 stony coral
Scleractinia - Mussidae	"Manicina areolata" = Manicina areolata, "Manicina cf. gyrosa" = Manicina areolata, "Diploria clivosa" = Pseudodiploria clivosa, "Diploria ? strigosa" = Pseudodiploria strigosa "Manicina areolata" = Manicina areolata Linnaeus 1758 stony coral "Manicina cf. gyrosa" = Manicina areolata Linnaeus 1758 stony coral "Diploria clivosa" = Pseudodiploria clivosa Ellis and Solander 1786 stony coral "Diploria ? strigosa" = Pseudodiploria strigosa Dana 1846 stony coral
Scleractinia - Oculinidae	"Archohelia limonensis" = Petrophyllia limonensis, Oculina diffusa, Oculina sarasotana "Archohelia limonensis" = Petrophyllia limonensis Vaughan 1919 stony coral Oculina diffusa Lamarck 1816 stony coral Oculina sarasotana Weisbord 1971 stony coral