TU 525 - "Forty-mile Bend" [Pinecrest Fm]: Late/Upper Pliocene, Florida
collected by Vokes & Vokes

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Muricidae
Murexiella (Murexiella) macgintyi (Smith 1938)
Vokes 1968
recombined as Murexiella macgintyi
SUBSPECIES: Murexiella (Murexiella) macgintyi faceta
Murexiella (Murexiella) shilohensis (Heilprin 1887)
Vokes 1968
Calotrophon ostrearum (Conrad 1846)
Vokes 1976
Chicoreus (Chicoreus) floridanus Vokes 1965
Vokes 1965
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Florida County:Miami-Dade
Coordinates: 25.6° North, 80.5° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:25.7° North, 79.9° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Pliocene
Stage:Piacenzian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Late/Upper Pliocene
Age range of interval:3.60000 - 2.58000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Tamiami Member:Pinecrest
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From Pinecrest beds ?=Pinecrest Mbr. AGE: Late Pliocene; Middle Pliocene in text. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Unknown position within formation.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:shelly/skeletal unlithified sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Sandstone, shelly. LITHIFICATION: Unlithified, based on figured specimens.
Environment:coastal indet.
Geology comments: ENVIRONMENT: Shallow-marine, siliciclastic environment.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original aragonite
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some genera,some macrofossils
Collection methods:surface (float),field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:FLMNH,USNM
Collectors:Vokes & Vokes
Collection method comments: COLLECTOR: E. Vokes and H. Vokes. REPOSITORY: Florida Museum of Natural History; USNM.
Taxonomic list comments:COVERAGE: Limited to taxa described in text, and subsequent publications. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication with modern nomenclature and species-resolution identifications.
Metadata
Database number:92518
Authorizer:A. Hendy Enterer:A. Hendy
Modifier:L. Eccles Research group:GCP,marine invertebrate
Created:2009-11-17 07:31:11 Last modified:2013-11-25 13:37:23
Access level:the public Released:2009-11-17 07:31:11
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

31182. E. H. Vokes and H. E. Vokes. 2000. Catalogue of Tulane University fossil localities. Unpublished notes [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/P. Wagner]

Secondary references:

17604 E. H. Vokes. 1965. Cenozoic Muricidae of the western Atlantic region: Part II - Chicoreus sensu stricto and Chicoreus (Siratus). Tulane Studies in Geology and Paleontology 3(4):181-204 [A. Miller/A. Hendy]
31169 E. H. Vokes. 1968. Cenozoic Muricidae of the Western Atlantic region. Part IV - Hexaplex and Murexiella. Tulane Studies in Geology and Paleontology 6(3):85-126 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]
31304 E. H. Vokes. 1976. Cenozoic Muricidae of the western Atlantic region. Part VII - Calotrophon and Attiliosa. Tulane Studies in Geology and Paleontology 12(3):101-132 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]