Well 43b Dade County: Pliocene, Florida

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Turritellidae
Turritella cookei
subspecies gladeensis
Turritella pontoni
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Olividae
Oliva mutica Say 1822
recombined as Olivella mutica
Oliva aff. sayana Ravenel 1834
recombined as Oliva (Ispidula) sayana
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Pecten sp. Müller 1776
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostrea sculpturata Conrad 1840
recombined as Conradostrea sculpturata
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
Cardium cf. robustum Lightfoot 1786
recombined as Dinocardium robustum
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Donacidae
Donax fossor Say 1822
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
Transenella sp. (Dall 1884)
spelled with current rank as Transennella
Bivalvia - Carditida - Carditidae
Venericardia (Pleuromeris) decemcostata Conrad 1867
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Florida County:Dade
Coordinates: 25.7° North, 80.8° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:25.8° 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

15 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:75025
Authorizer:A. Miller Enterer:K. Bulinski
Modifier:L. Eccles Research group:GCP,marine invertebrate
Created:2007-09-13 19:29:49 Last modified:2011-07-25 20:32:51
Access level:the public Released:2007-09-13 19:29:49
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]