TU 520 - Brighton (unnamed formation) (Pleistocene of the United States)

Where: Highlands County, Florida (27.2° N, 81.1° W: paleocoordinates 27.2° N, 80.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From an unnamed unit. AGE: Probably Pleistocene. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within section.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified lithology not reported

• ENVIRONMENT: Shallow-marine, siliciclastic environment.
• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Unknown. 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 Unpublished notes [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/P. Wagner]more details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 92498: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 17.11.2009

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 ostrearum6 Conrad 1846 murex snail
Murexiella (Subpterynotus) textilis3 Gabb 1873 murex snail
"Murexiella (Murexiella) macgintyi n. sp." = Murexiella macgintyi3 Smith 1938 murex snail
SUBSPECIES: Murexiella (Murexiella) macgintyi faceta
Dermomurex (Dermomurex) engonatus5 Dall 1892 murex snail
Chicoreus (Chicoreus) floridanus2 Vokes 1965 murex snail
"Murex (Murex) rubidus" = Vokesimurex rubidus1 Baker 1897 murex snail
Bivalvia
 Lucinida - Lucinidae