USGS Loc. 11742 - Caloosahatchee River [Buckingham Mbr, Tamiami Fm]: Late Pliocene, Florida
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda
- Turritellidae
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Turritella buckinghamensis
Mansfield 1939
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Bivalvia
- Nuculanida
- Nuculanidae
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Nuculana sp.
Link 1807
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Veneridae
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Chione ulocyma
(Dall 1895)
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Dosinia elegans
(Conrad 1838)
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Bivalvia
- Arcida
- Arcidae
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Navicula umbonata
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Arca (Cunearca) scalaris
(Conrad 1844)
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Bivalvia
- Pectinida
- Pectinidae
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Pecten (Chlamys) eboreus
Mansfield 1936
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SUBSPECIES: P. (C.) eboreus buckinghamensis | ||||||||||
Bivalvia
- Pectinida
- Anomiidae
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Anomia simplex
d'Orbigny 1845
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Bivalvia
- Ostreida
- Ostreidae
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Ostrea meridionalis
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see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | Florida | County: | Lee |
Coordinates: | 26.7° North, 81.6° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 26.8° North, 81.0° West | ||||
Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
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: | 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: | 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. | |
Taxonomic list comments:COVERAGE: Exhaustive for gastropoda and bivalvia. NOMENCLATURE: Antiquated, however author uses species-level and some subgenus designations. |
Metadata
Also known as: | Location C | ||
Database number: | 67074 | ||
Authorizer: | A. Hendy | Enterer: | A. Hendy |
Modifier: | A. Hendy | Research group: | GCP,marine invertebrate |
Created: | 2006-11-06 20:48:37 | Last modified: | 2013-11-25 13:37:23 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2006-11-06 20:48:37 |
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] |