TU 797 - Alligator Alley [Pinecrest Fm] (Pliocene of the United States)

Where: Collier County, Florida (26.1° N, 81.5° W: paleocoordinates 26.2° N, 80.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Pinecrest Member (Tamiami Formation), Late/Upper Pliocene (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From Pinecrest beds ?=Pinecrest Mbr. AGE: Late Pliocene. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Unknown position within formation.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

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

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

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original aragonite

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

Collection methods: surface (float),

• 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 Unpublished notes [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/P. Wagner]more details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 92362: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 09.11.2009

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
Calotrophon ostrearum8 Conrad 1846 murex snail
Typhis (Rugotyphis) floridanus1 Dall 1889 murex snail
Murexiella (Murexiella) shilohensis2 Heilprin 1887 murex snail
Murexiella (Subpterynotus) textilis2 Gabb 1873 murex snail
Dermomurex (Dermomurex) engonatus7 Dall 1892 murex snail
Hexaplex (Hexaplex) fulvescens2 Sowerby 1834 murex snail
Poirieria (Panamurex) clarksvillensis5 Mansfield 1937 murex snail
Bivalvia
 Lucinida - Lucinidae
 Cardiida - Tellinidae
"Arcopagia (Johnsonella) fausta" = Arcopagia fausta6
"Arcopagia (Johnsonella) fausta" = Arcopagia fausta6 Pulteney 1799 tellin clam
 Arcida - Arcidae
Anadara (Caloosarca) notoflorida n. sp.3 Vokes 1969 ark