PRI Loc. 1754 (sample 22, repilcate B) - Anastasia Fm: Late/Upper Pleistocene, Florida
collected by Sleight 1948

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Tagelus divisus Spengler 1794
5 specimens
Bivalvia - Arcida - Glycymerididae
Tucetona pectinata (Gmelin 1791)
4 specimens
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
Trachycardium muricatum (Linnaeus 1758)
1 specimen
recombined as Trachycardium (Dallocardia) muricatum
Laevicardium laevigatum (Linnaeus 1758)
3 specimens
replaced by Laevicardium serratum
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Tellinidae
Tellinella sp. Mörch 1853
1 specimen
spelled with current rank as Tellina (Tellinella)
Eurytellina sp. Fischer 1887
4 specimens
spelled with current rank as Tellina (Eurytellina)
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Mactridae
Mulinia sapotila
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
Chione cancellata (Linnaeus 1767)
118 specimens
Anomalocardia auberiana (d'Orbigny 1853)
2 specimens
synonym of Anomalocardia cuneimeris
Pitar simpsoni (Dall 1895)
3 specimens
Transennella stimpsoni Dall 1902
92 specimens
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Corbulidae
Caryocorbula contracta (Say 1822)
4 specimens
Bivalvia - Lucinida - Lucinidae
Stewartia anodonta (Say 1824)
1 specimen
COMMENTS: Listed as "S. floridana"
Gastropoda - Strombidae
Strombus alatus Gmelin 1792
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Marginellidae
"Marginella" sp. Lamarck 1799
3 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Olividae
Olivella mutica (Say 1822)
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Terebridae
Terebra dislocata (Say 1822)
2 specimens
recombined as Strioterebrum dislocatum
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Columbellidae
Costoanachis sp. Sacco 1890
1 specimen
spelled with current rank as Anachis (Costoanachis)
Gastropoda - Turritellidae
Vermicularia spirata (Philippi 1836)
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Modulidae
Modulus modulus (Linnaeus 1758)
2 specimens
Gastropoda - Cerithiidae
Cerithium muscarum Say 1832
9 specimens
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Florida County:Palm Beach
Coordinates: 26.7° North, 80.4° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:26.6° North, 80.5° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Pleistocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Late/Upper Pleistocene
Age range of interval:0.12600 - 0.01170 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Anastasia
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: Presumably from Anastasia Fm. AGE: Late Pleistocene. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Unknown position within formation. See Sellards (1912) for original description - Sellards, E. H., 1912, Florida Geological Survey Fourth Annual Report, p. 1-79.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:shelly/skeletal unlithified sandy siltstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Sandy siltstone, shelly. LITHIFICATION: Unlithified, based on observation of specimens.
Environment:coastal indet.
Geology comments: ENVIRONMENT: Shallow-marine, siliciclastic environment.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original aragonite,original calcite
Degree of concentration:concentrated
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:bulk,sieve,field collection
Minimum sieve size:4.000
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Museum repositories:PRI
Collectors:Sleight Collection dates:1948
Collection method comments: COLLECTOR: V.G. Sleight, 1948. REPOSITORY: PRI.
Taxonomic list comments:TAXONOMY: Identified by A. Hendy; nomenclature based on revision of Abbott (1974) [PBDB Ref# 19379].
Metadata
Database number:70010
Authorizer:A. Hendy Enterer:A. Hendy
Modifier:L. Eccles Research group:GCP,marine invertebrate
Created:2007-03-14 06:59:52 Last modified:2013-11-25 13:37:23
Access level:authorizer only Released:2008-03-14 06:59:52
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

19909. A. J. W. Hendy, D. P. Buick, K. V. Bulinski, C. A. Ferguson, and A. I. Miller. 2008. Unpublished census data from Atlantic coastal plain and circum-Caribbean Neogene assemblages and taxonomic opinions. [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]