TU 68 - North St. Petersburg [Caloosahatchee Fm] (Pleistocene of the United States)

Where: Pinellas County, Florida (27.8° N, 82.6° W: paleocoordinates 27.9° N, 82.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Caloosahatchee Fm, for which lithostratigraphic relationships are not discussed. AGE: Early Pleistocene. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position with formation.

• 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

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• 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 Unpublished notes [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/P. Wagner]more details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 92496: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 17.11.2009

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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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Gastropoda
 Neogastropoda - Muricidae
"Murex (Murex) rubidus" = Vokesimurex rubidus1, Murexiella (Subpterynotus) textilis2, "Murexiella (Murexiella) macgintyi" = Murexiella macgintyi2
"Murex (Murex) rubidus" = Vokesimurex rubidus1 Baker 1897 murex snail
Murexiella (Subpterynotus) textilis2 Gabb 1873 murex snail
"Murexiella (Murexiella) macgintyi" = Murexiella macgintyi2 Smith 1938 murex snail
1Vokes 1963; 2Vokes 1968