Quality Aggregates Phase 6 Pit: Late/Upper Pliocene, Florida
collected by Zullo
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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unclassified
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Planecphora mansfieldi
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Gastropoda
- Cypraeidae
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Akleistostoma erici
(Petuch 1998)
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Muricidae
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Pterorhytis marshalli
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Ecphora quadricostata
(Conrad 1830)
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Rhizangiidae
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Phyllangia blakei
Wells 1947
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Astrangia leonensis
Weisbord 1971
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Caryophylliidae
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Paracyathus vaughani
Gane 1895
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Florida | County: | Sarasota |
| Coordinates: | 27.3° North, 82.4° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 27.4° North, 81.8° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Pliocene |
| Stage: | Piacenzian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
| Key time interval: | Late/Upper Pliocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 3.60000 - 2.58000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Tamiami | Member: | Buckingham | ||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Tamiami Formation, of which lithostratigraphic relations are not discussed. AGE: Late Pliocene. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From Bed 11 of Quality Aggregates pit section. | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | shelly/skeletal unlithified sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Sand facies. LITHIFICATION: Unlithified, based on figured specimens. | |
| Environment: | coastal indet. |
| Geology comments: ENVIRONMENT: Shallow-marine, siliciclastic environment. | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | surface (float),surface (in situ),field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Collectors: | Zullo |
| Collection method comments: COLLECTOR: V. Zullo. REPOSITORY: University of North Carolina Wilmington. | |
| Taxonomic list comments:COVERAGE: Limited to taxa described in text, and subsequent publications. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication with modern nomenclature and species-resolution identifications. | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 179591 | ||
| Authorizer: | P. Wagner | Enterer: | P. Wagner | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2016-06-21 08:07:52 | Last modified: | 2016-06-21 08:07:52 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2016-06-21 08:07:52 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 58594. | E. J. Petuch. 2003. Cenozoic Seas: The View From Eastern North America [P. Wagner/P. Wagner] |