TU 769 - Kissimmee Canal [Pinecrest Fm] (Pliocene of the United States)

Where: Okeechobee County, Florida (27.1° N, 80.9° W: paleocoordinates 27.2° N, 80.2° 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 Unpublished notes [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/P. Wagner]more details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 92664: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 23.11.2009

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
Typhis (Rugotyphis) floridanus1 Dall 1889 murex snail
Calotrophon ostrearum5 Conrad 1846 murex snail
Hexaplex (Hexaplex) fulvescens2 Sowerby 1834 murex snail
Murexiella (Subpterynotus) textilis2 Gabb 1873 murex snail
"Murexiella (Murexiella) macgintyi" = Murexiella macgintyi2 Smith 1938 murex snail
SUBSPECIES: Murexiella (Murexiella) macgintyi faceta
Dermomurex (Dermomurex) engonatus4 Dall 1892 murex snail
Bivalvia
 Lucinida - Lucinidae