TU 532 - Murdock [Pinecrest & Caloosahatchee Fms] (Pliocene to of the United States)

Where: Charlotte County, Florida (27.0° N, 82.1° W: paleocoordinates 27.1° N, 81.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: Mixed; from Pinecrest beds ?=Pinecrest Mbr of the Tamiami Fm and the Caloosahatchee Fm. AGE: Late Pliocene-Early Pleistocene. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Unknown position within formations.

• 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.

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 Unpublished notes [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/P. Wagner]more details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 92365: 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.
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Gastropoda
 Neogastropoda - Muricidae
Chicoreus (Chicoreus) floridanus2, Typhis (Rugotyphis) floridanus1, Calotrophon ostrearum4
Chicoreus (Chicoreus) floridanus2 Vokes 1965 murex snail
Typhis (Rugotyphis) floridanus1 Dall 1889 murex snail
Calotrophon ostrearum4 Conrad 1846 murex snail
Bivalvia
 Arcida - Arcidae
Anadara (Caloosarca) crassicosta3
1Gertman 1969; 2Vokes 1965; 3Vokes 1969; 4Vokes 1976