TU 202 - La Belle [Caloosahatchee Fm] (Pleistocene of the United States)

Where: Hendry County, Florida (26.8° N, 81.4° W: paleocoordinates 26.8° N, 81.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Caloosahatchee Formation, Early/Lower Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.8 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From Caloosahatchee Fm for which lithostratigraphic relationships are not discussed. AGE: Early Pleistocene. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within sequence.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified, shelly/skeletal marl

• ENVIRONMENT: Shallow-marine, siliciclastic environment.
• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Marl, shelly. LITHIFICATION: Unlithified, based on figured specimens and facies description.

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 Unpublished notes [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/P. Wagner]more details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 92334: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 08.11.2009

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Limited to Anadara (Caloosarca) 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
Calotrophon ostrearum8 Conrad 1846 murex snail
"Murex (Murex) rubidus" = Vokesimurex rubidus2 Baker 1897 murex snail
Chicoreus (Chicoreus) floridanus3 Vokes 1965 murex snail
Aspella senex7 Dall 1903 murex snail
Murexiella (Subpterynotus) textilis4 Gabb 1873 murex snail
Murexiella (Murexiella) shilohensis4 Heilprin 1887 murex snail
"Murexiella (Murexiella) macgintyi" = Murexiella macgintyi4 Smith 1938 murex snail
Dermomurex (Dermomurex) engonatus7 Dall 1892 murex snail
Bivalvia
 Cardiida - Tellinidae
"Arcopagia (Johnsonella) fausta" = Arcopagia fausta6
"Arcopagia (Johnsonella) fausta" = Arcopagia fausta6 Pulteney 1799 tellin clam
 Arcida - Arcidae