Unit 11, Sarasota, zone 2, coral bed (Pliocene of the United States)

Where: Sarasota County, Florida (27.3° N, 82.4° W: paleocoordinates 27.4° N, 81.8° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Pliocene (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)

• middle Late Pliocene

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; muddy sandstone and siltstone

• unconsolidated, grey-green to light brown, muddy sand with abundant phosphate and quartz grains ranging from silt to gravel size

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: K. Ketcher and W. Allmon. 1993. Environment and Mode of Deposition of a Pliocene Coral Bed: Coral Thickets and Storms in the Fossil Record. Palaios 8:3-17 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 176822: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 04.03.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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unclassified
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Bivalva indet.
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Rhizangiidae
Septastrea crassa
Septastrea crassa Holmes 1860 stony coral
Gastropoda
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Gastropoda indet.
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Chesapecten madisonius, "Chesapecten septenarius" = Chesapecten jeffersonius septenarius
Chesapecten madisonius Say 1824 scallop
"Chesapecten septenarius" = Chesapecten jeffersonius septenarius Say 1824 scallop