ammonites
TU 975 - Caloosahatchee Canal [Pinecrest & Caloosahatchee Fms] (Pliocene to of the United States)

Where: Glades County, Florida (26.8° N, 81.3° W: paleocoordinates 26.8° N, 80.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Pliocene to Late/Upper Pliocene (3.6 - 0.8 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: Mixed; from Pinecrest beds ?=Pinecrest Mbr of the Tamiami Fm and the Caloosahatchee Fm. AGE: Late Pliocene-Early Pleistocene. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Unknown position within formations.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified, shelly/skeletal sandstone

• ENVIRONMENT: Shallow-marine, siliciclastic environment.
• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Sandstone, shelly. LITHIFICATION: Unlithified, based on figured specimens.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original aragonite

Collected by Vokes & Vokes; reposited in the FLMNH, USNM

Collection methods: surface (float),

• COLLECTOR: E. Vokes and H. Vokes. REPOSITORY: Florida Museum of Natural History, USNM.

Primary reference: E. H. Vokes and H. E. Vokes. Catalogue of Tulane University fossil localities. Unpublished notes. [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/A. Hendy] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 92364: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 09.11.2009

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