Where: Palm Beach County, Florida (26.9° N, 80.1° W: paleocoordinates 26.9° N, 80.1° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Anastasia Formation, Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: Presumably from Anastasia Fm. AGE: Late Pleistocene. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Unknown position within formation. See Sellards (1912) for original description - Sellards, E. H., 1912, Florida Geological Survey Fourth Annual Report, p. 1-79.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified, shelly/skeletal sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: original aragonite, original calcite
Reposited in the PRI
Collection methods: bulk, sieve,
• COLLECTOR: V.G. Sleight, 1948. REPOSITORY: PRI. COMMENTS: Split 1 of 2 subsamples.
Primary reference: 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 Unpublished census data from Atlantic coastal plain and circum-Caribbean Neogene assemblages and taxonomic opinions.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]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 80027: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 01.04.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam | |
"Nucula proxima" = Nucula (Nucula) proxima
"Nucula proxima" = Nucula (Nucula) proxima Say 1820 Atlantic Nut Clam | |
Lunarca ovalis Bruguiere 1789 ark | |
Carditamera floridana Conrad 1838 clam | |
Stewartia floridana Conrad 1833 clam | |
"Laevicardium laevigatum" = Laevicardium serratum
"Laevicardium laevigatum" = Laevicardium serratum Linnaeus 1758 cockle | |
"Eurytellina sp." = Tellina (Eurytellina), "Moerella sp." = Tellina (Moerella)
"Eurytellina sp." = Tellina (Eurytellina) Fischer 1887 tellin clam
"Moerella sp." = Tellina (Moerella) Fischer 1887 tellin clam | |
Cyrenoidea floridana clam | |
Chione cancellata Linnaeus 1767 venus clam
"Dosinia elegans" = Dosinia (Dosinidia) elegans Conrad 1838 venus clam
Transennella stimpsoni Dall 1902 venus clam | |
Gastropoda | |
Marginella sp. Lamarck 1799 margin shell | |
Latirus sp. Monfort 1810 snail | |
"Nassarius (Nassarius) vibex" = Nassarius vibex
"Nassarius (Nassarius) vibex" = Nassarius vibex Say 1822 snail | |
Busycon contrarium Conrad 1840 whelk | |
"Terebra dislocata" = Strioterebrum dislocatum
"Terebra dislocata" = Strioterebrum dislocatum Say 1822 auger snail | |
Conus jaspideus Gmelin 1791 cone shell | |
Olivella mutica Say 1822 olive snail | |
Cerithium muscarum Say 1832 cerith snail | |
Modulus modulus Linnaeus 1758 snail | |
Bulla striata BruguiƩre 1792 snail |