TU 583 - Miami Canal [Caloosahatchee Fm] (Pleistocene of the United States)

Where: Palm Beach County, Florida (26.1° N, 80.6° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 26.4° N, 79.9° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Caloosahatchee Fm for which lithostratigraphic relationships are not discussed. AGE: Early Pleistocene. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From lower beds.

• 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 Unpublished notes [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/P. Wagner]more details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 92343: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 08.11.2009

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Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Limited to taxa described in text, and subsequent publications. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication with modern nomenclature and species-resolution identifications.
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Bivalvia
 Arcida - Arcidae
Anadara (Caloosarca) crassicosta4
 Lucinida - Lucinidae
Miltha (Miltha) caloosaensis5
Gastropoda
 Neogastropoda - Muricidae
Calotrophon ostrearum6, Typhis (Rugotyphis) floridanus1, Chicoreus (Chicoreus) floridanus2, Murexiella (Subpterynotus) textilis3
Calotrophon ostrearum6 Conrad 1846 murex snail
Typhis (Rugotyphis) floridanus1 Dall 1889 murex snail
Chicoreus (Chicoreus) floridanus2 Vokes 1965 murex snail
Murexiella (Subpterynotus) textilis3 Gabb 1873 murex snail
1Gertman 1969; 2Vokes 1965; 3Vokes 1968; 4Vokes 1969; 5Vokes 1969; 6Vokes 1976