TU 767 - Ortona Lock [Caloosahatchee Fm] (Pleistocene of the United States)

Where: Glades County, Florida (26.8° N, 81.3° W: paleocoordinates 26.8° N, 81.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Caloosahatchee Formation, Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From Caloosahatchee Fm and post-Caloosahatchee Fms (mixed). AGE: Early Pleistocene + some undifferentiated Pleistocene. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From dredged spoil banks.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified sandstone

• ENVIRONMENT: Shallow-marine, siliciclastic environment.
• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Sandstone. LITHIFICATION: Unlithified, based on observation of specimens.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original aragonite

Collected by Vokes & Vokes; reposited in the FLMNH, USNM

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• COLLECTOR: E. Vokes and H. Vokes. REPOSITORY: Florida Museum of Natural History, USNM.

Primary reference: E. H. Vokes and H. E. Vokes. 2000. Catalogue of Tulane University fossil localities. Unpublished notes [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 92332: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 08.11.2009

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Limited to taxa described in text, and subsequent publications. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication with modern nomenclature and species-resolution identifications.
Gastropoda
 Neogastropoda - Muricidae
Typhis (Rugotyphis) floridanus1 Dall 1889 murex snail
Murexiella (Subpterynotus) textilis2 Gabb 1873 murex snail
"Murexiella (Murexiella) macgintyi" = Murexiella macgintyi2 Smith 1938 murex snail
Murexiella (Murexiella) shilohensis2 Heilprin 1887 murex snail
Murexiella (Murexiella) glypta2 Smith 1938 murex snail
Calotrophon ostrearum5 Conrad 1846 murex snail
Dermomurex (Dermomurex) engonatus4 Dall 1892 murex snail
Aspella senex4 Dall 1903 murex snail
Bivalvia
 Arcida - Arcidae