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
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
Gastropoda | |
Calyptraea centralis Conrad 1841 slipper shell | |
Vermicularia sp. Lamarck 1799 turret shell
Turritella apicalis turret shell
Turritella subannulata turret shell | |
Acteocina canaliculata Say 1826 barrel-bubble | |
Bivalvia | |
"Chlamys fuscopurpureus" = Lindapecten muscosus
"Chlamys fuscopurpureus" = Lindapecten muscosus Wood 1828 scallop | |
Brachidontes sp. Swainson 1840 mussel | |
"Phacoides waccamawensis" = Bellucina waccamawensis
"Phacoides waccamawensis" = Bellucina waccamawensis Dall 1903 clam | |
Chione cancellata Linnaeus 1767 venus clam |