Where: Monroe County, Florida (25.7° N, 81.9° W: paleocoordinates 25.8° N, 81.5° 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 41209: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 08.07.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea | |
Cassidulus (? Rhynchopygus) evergladensis Mansfield 1932 sea urchin | |
Bivalvia | |
? Venus sp. Linnaeus 1758 venus clam | |
Cardium sp. Linnaeus 1758 cockle | |
"Arca ? occidentalis" = Byssoarca zebra
"Arca ? occidentalis" = Byssoarca zebra Swainson 1833 ark | |
"Ostrea tamiamiensis" = Hyotissa haitensis
"Ostrea tamiamiensis" = Hyotissa haitensis Sowerby 1850 oyster includes occurrences of both O. tamiamiensis (2 valves) and O. tamiamiensis monroensis Mansfield, n. subsp. (1 shell)
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"Pecten (Plagioctenium) evergladensis" = Argopecten, "Pecten (Lyropecten) tamiamiensis" = Lyropecten tamiamiensis, Spondylus sp.
"Pecten (Plagioctenium) evergladensis" = Argopecten calico scallop
"Pecten (Lyropecten) tamiamiensis" = Lyropecten tamiamiensis Mansfield 1932 scallop
Spondylus sp. Linnaeus 1758 scallop | |
Bryozoa | |
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831 | |
Cirripedia | |
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