MCZ C. Jones Loc. 45 [Jackson Bluff Fm]: Late Pliocene, Florida
collected by Jones

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Corbulidae
1 specimen
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
3 specimens
Mercenaria rileyi (Conrad 1838)
1 specimen
Lirophora ulocyma (Dall 1895)
12 specimens
Lirophora latilirata (Conrad 1841)
12 specimens
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Semelidae
4 specimens
Bivalvia - Carditida - Crassatellidae
3 specimens
Bivalvia - Carditida - Carditidae
12 specimens
Bivalvia - Carditida - Astartidae
Astarte floridana (Dall 1903)
11 specimens
unclassified
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Arcida - Glycymerididae
Glycymeris americana (Defrance 1826)
4 specimens
Tucetona sp. Iredale 1939
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Arcida - Arcidae
2 specimens
[entered as Anadara callicetosa]
Anadara lienosa (Say 1832)
4 specimens
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Anomiidae
Placunanomia plicata Tuomey and Holmes 1857
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Plicatulidae
8 specimens
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
5 specimens
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Chama striata Smith 1817
2 specimens
Bivalvia - Mytilida - Mytilidae
Modiolus sp. (Lamarck 1801)
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Trochidae
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neotaenioglossa - Calyptraeidae
Crepidula fornicata (Linnaeus 1758)
2 specimens
Crepidula spinosa Conrad 1843
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Vermetidae
8 specimens
2 specimens
[entered as Petaloconchus granifera]
Gastropoda - Turritellidae
2 specimens
Thecostraca
Cirripedia indet. Rafinesque 1816
1 specimen
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Florida County:Leon
Coordinates: 30.4° North, 84.6° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:30.9° North, 83.5° West (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Neogene Epoch: Pliocene
Stage: Piacenzian 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 6
Key time interval: Late Pliocene
Age range of interval: 3.6 - 2.58 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Alum Bluff Formation:Jackson Bluff
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Talus from bed similar to Loc. 42 on road to edge of Jackson Bluff
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:brown,red unlithified argillaceous sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: Reddish-brown clayey sand
Environment:marine indet.
Geology comments: ENVIRONMENT: Shallow-marine, restricted/sheltered, fine-grained siliciclastic environment.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original aragonite
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:excellent
Fragmentation:occasional
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:bulk,sieve,field collection
Minimum sieve size:4.000
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Museum repositories:MCZ
Collectors:Jones
Collection method comments: COLLECTOR: Carol Jones, ~1970's. REPOSITORY: MCZ, Harvard. FIDELITY: High ecologic fidelity.
Taxonomic list comments:TAXONOMY: Identified by A. Hendy; nomenclature based on revision of Glenn (1904), Ward (1992), and Petuch (2004).
Metadata
Database number:80044
Authorizer:A. Hendy Enterer:K. Bulinski
Modifier:A. Hendy Research group:GCP,marine invertebrate
Created:2008-04-01 21:57:20 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:authorizer only Released:2009-04-01 21:57:20
Creative Commons license:CC0
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]

Secondary references:

26931 C. C. Jones. 1976. The biology and evolution of Chione (Bivalvia: Veneridae) in the eastern coastal plains of North America. Unpublished Ph.D thesis, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]