F.G.S. Well 14, unit 1 [Caloosahatchee Fm] (Pleistocene of the United States)

Where: Glades County, Florida (27.0° N, 81.2° W: paleocoordinates 27.0° N, 80.8° W)

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Caloosahatchee Formation, Early/Lower Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.8 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Caloosahatchee Fm, which is in this section overlain by the Fort Thompson Fm (Late Pleistocene). AGE: Assigned to Early Pleistocene (A. Hendy, 2007). STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From Unit 1, a 20 ft thick sandy marl.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; poorly lithified, shelly/skeletal, gray, yellow, sandy, calcareous marl

• ENVIRONMENT: Shallow marine, siliciclastic.
• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Marl, sandy, calcareous, poorly consolidated, quartz grains subangular to rounded, yellow-gray. LITHIFICATION: Poorly-lithified, based on facies description.

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: core,

• COLLECTOR: Florida Geological Survey, 1954. REPOSITORY: Not stated, but presumably the Florida Geological Survey.

Primary reference: J. R. DuBar. 1958. Stratigraphy and paleontology of the Late Neogene strata of the Caloosahatchee River area of southern Florida. Florida Geological Survey Bulletin 40:1-267 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 80359: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 13.04.2008

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Exhaustive for gastropoda and bivalvia. NOMENCLATURE: Reasonably modern nomenclature with species resolution assignments.
Gastropoda
 Neotaenioglossa - Calyptraeidae
Calyptraea centralis Conrad 1841 slipper shell
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
Vermicularia sp. Lamarck 1799 turret shell
Turritella apicalis turret shell
 Opisthobranchia - Cylichnidae
Acteocina canaliculata Say 1826 barrel-bubble
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
"Chlamys fuscopurpureus" = Lindapecten muscosus
"Chlamys fuscopurpureus" = Lindapecten muscosus Wood 1828 scallop
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
Brachidontes sp. Swainson 1840 mussel
 Lucinida - Lucinidae
"Phacoides waccamawensis" = Bellucina waccamawensis
"Phacoides waccamawensis" = Bellucina waccamawensis Dall 1903 clam
 Pholadida - Corbulidae
 Cardiida - Veneridae
Chione cancellata Linnaeus 1767 venus clam