USGS Loc. 14075 - Caloosahatchee River [Buckingham Mbr, Tamiami Fm]: Late/Upper Pliocene, Florida

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Turritellidae
Turritella cf. pontoni
Turritella buckinghamensis Mansfield 1939
Turritella aff. cartagenensis Pilsbry and Brown 1917
recombined as Turritella (Broderiptella) bifastigata cartagenensis
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Cancellariidae
Cancellaria aff. tabulata Gardner and Aldrich 1919
Gastropoda - Cypraeidae
Cypraea carolinensis Conrad 1841
recombined as Akleistostoma carolinensis
SUBSPECIES: C. carolinensis floridana
Bivalvia - Thraciida - Thraciidae
Thracia sp. Blainville 1824
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
Chione latilirata (Conrad 1841)
recombined as Lirophora (Lirophora) latilirata
SUBSPECIES: C. latilirata athleta
Chione ulocyma (Dall 1895)
recombined as Lirophora (Panchione) ulocyma
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Tellinidae
Metis biplicata (Conrad 1834)
recombined as Florimetis biplicata
Bivalvia - Arcida - Arcidae
Arca (Cunearca) scalaris (Conrad 1844)
recombined as Cunearca scalaris
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostrea meridonalis
Ostrea disparilis
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Pecten (Pecten) ochlockoneensis
SUBSPECIES: P. (P.) ochlockoneensis leensis
Pecten eboreus (Conrad 1833)
recombined as Carolinapecten eboreus
SUBSPECIES: P. eboreus buckinghamensis
Pecten caloosensis Mansfield 1939
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Florida County:Olga
Coordinates: 26.7° North, 81.7° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:26.8° North, 81.1° West
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
Geological group:Okeechobee Formation:Tamiami Member:Buckingham
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: Overlain by the Tamiami Fm (Late Pliocene) and the Caloosahatchee Fm (Late Pliocene). THICKNESS: Formation and collected strata of unknown thickness. AGE: Late Miocene in text based on macrofossil biostratigraphy; revised by Petuch and Roberts (2007) to be Late Pliocene. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within unit.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:phosphatic lithified sandy,calcareous "limestone"
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Chalky limestone, containing little sand and many small grains of phosphorite. Hardens on exposure and becomes brown. LITHIFICATION: Lithified, given facies description and taphonomy (aragonitic forms preserved as casts and molds
Environment:carbonate indet.
Geology comments: ENVIRONMENT: Shallow-water carbonate facies.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,mold/impression,original calcite
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:salvage,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:USNM
Collection method comments: COLLECTOR: W.C. Mansfield, F.S. MacNeil, and C.W. Mumm (USGS). REPOSITORY: USNM. COLLECTING METHODS: From dredgings which contain a number of species of Pliocene age. Author indicates in text the taxa presumed to have been derived from the Buckingham Fm.
Taxonomic list comments:COVERAGE: Exhaustive for gastropoda and bivalvia. NOMENCLATURE: Antiquated, however author uses species-level and some subgenus designations.
Metadata
Database number:67077
Authorizer:A. Hendy Enterer:A. Hendy
Modifier:A. Hendy Research group:GCP,marine invertebrate
Created:2006-11-06 21:13:32 Last modified:2013-11-25 13:37:23
Access level:the public Released:2006-11-06 21:13:32
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

19112. W. C. Mansfield. 1939. Notes on the upper Tertiary and Pleistocene mollusks of Peninsula Florida. Florida State Geological Survey Geological Bulletin 18:1-69 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]

Secondary references:

26813 E. J. Petuch and C. E. Roberts. 2007. The geology of the Everglades and adjacent areas 1-212 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]