Where: Collier County, Florida (26.0° N, 81.7° W: paleocoordinates 26.0° N, 81.3° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Caloosahatchee Formation, Early/Lower Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.8 Ma)
• the collections described in this paper are from limestone dredged from ditches to form the roadbed of the Tamiami Trail and thus not found in situ, but judged by author to be from the same bed.
•AGE: Assigned here to an Early Pleistocene age.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, gray, white, sandy limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: cast, mold/impression
Collection methods: salvage,
Primary reference: W. C. Mansfield. 1932. Pliocene fossils from limestone in southern Florida. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 170D:43-56 [A. Miller/K. Layou/K. Layou]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 41199: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 08.07.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bryozoa | |
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831 | |
Gastropoda | |
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Bivalvia | |
"Pecten (Nodipecten) pittieri" = Lyropecten pittieri, Pecten (Pecten) sp., "Pecten (Plagioctenium) evergladensis" = Argopecten
"Pecten (Nodipecten) pittieri" = Lyropecten pittieri Dall 1912 scallop Pecten (Nodipecten)pittieri collierensis Mansfield, n. subsp.
Pecten (Pecten) sp. Müller 1776 scallop
"Pecten (Plagioctenium) evergladensis" = Argopecten calico scallop | |
"Plicatula marginata" = Plicatula gibbosa
"Plicatula marginata" = Plicatula gibbosa Lamarck 1801 scallop | |
"Ostrea sculpturata" = Conradostrea sculpturata, Ostrea sp.
"Ostrea sculpturata" = Conradostrea sculpturata Conrad 1840 oyster | |
"Ostrea tamiamiensis" = Hyotissa haitensis
"Ostrea tamiamiensis" = Hyotissa haitensis Sowerby 1850 oyster | |
"Chione ? intapurpurea" = Puberella intapurpurea
"Chione ? intapurpurea" = Puberella intapurpurea Conrad 1849 venus clam | |
Cirripedia | |
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