Well 42a Dade County: Pliocene, Florida
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Gastropoda
- Turritellidae
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Turritella pontoni
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Turritella cookei
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| gladeensis | ||||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Veneridae
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Transenella sp.
(Dall 1884)
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| spelled with current rank as Transennella | ||||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Carditida
- Carditidae
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Venericardia (Pleuromeris) decemcostata
Conrad 1867
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Bivalvia
- Ostreida
- Ostreidae
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Ostrea sculpturata
Conrad 1840
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| recombined as Conradostrea sculpturata | ||||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Arcida
- Glycymerididae
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Glycymeris sp.
Da Costa 1778
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| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Florida | County: | Dade |
| Coordinates: | 25.8° North, 80.9° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 25.9° North, 80.0° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | local area |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Pliocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
| Key time interval: | Pliocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 5.33300 - 2.58000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Tamiami | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | formation | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Determined from cores from test wells drilled by US Corps of Engineers in 1950
10 ft below sea level Age determination revised in more recent papers (see Lithostratigraphy, Petrography, Biostratigraphy, and Strontium-Isotope Stratigraphy of the Surficial Aquifer System of Western Collier County, Florida, Edwards et al., 1998, USGS Open-File Report 98-205) | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | shelly/skeletal silty,sandy marl |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: Changes laterally from shelly marl to soft silty limestone to the silty sand and clayey marl | |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | mesofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | core |
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
| Collection method comments: observed from cores | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 75022 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Miller | Enterer: | K. Bulinski |
| Modifier: | L. Eccles | Research group: | GCP,marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2007-09-13 19:29:41 | Last modified: | 2011-07-25 20:31:24 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2007-09-13 19:29:41 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 25303. | M. C. Schroeder and H. Klein. 1954. Geology of the Western Everglades Area, Southern Florida. United States Geological Survey Circular 314 [A. Miller/K. Bulinski/P. Wagner] |