Where: Florida (27.5° N, 80.8° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 27.9° N, 80.1° W (Wright 2013)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• basin-level geographic resolution
When: Rucks Pit Member (Nashua Formation), Early/Lower Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.8 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Rucks Pit Mbr of the Nashua Fm, Okeechobee Grp, which overlies by the Fort Drum Mbr, and is overlain by the Fort Thompson Fm. Correlative with the Waccamaw Fm (North Carolina), Bees Branch and Ayers Land Mbr of the Caloosahatchee Fm (Florida), and the Flanners Beach Fm (North and South Carolina). THICKNESS: Varies between 3 and 4 m across areal extent. AGE: Early Pleistocene. Based on macrofossil biostratigraphy the unit is assigned to the middle-late Calabrian. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Checklist representative of entire member.
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; poorly lithified, shelly/skeletal, silty, sandy limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: COLLECTOR: Unknown, presumably the authors and others. REPOSITORY: No repository stated.
Primary reference: E. J. Petuch and C. E. Roberts. 2007. The geology of the Everglades and adjacent areas 1-212 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 79748: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 21.03.2008
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Bivalvia | |
Mulinia lateralis Say 1822 clam | |
Dinocardium hazeli cockle | |
Noetia limula clam | |
Conradostrea lawrencei Ward and Blackwelder 1987 oyster | |
Carolinapecten solaroides Heilprin 1887 scallop | |
Gastropoda | |
Volutifusus halscotti volute | |
Urosalpinx rucksorum murex snail | |
Oliva (Porphyria) paraporphyria olive snail
Oliva (Strephona) rucksorum olive snail
Oliva (Strephona) roseae olive snail | |
"Fasciolaria (Cinctura) rucksorum" = Cinctura, Triplofusus acmaensis
"Fasciolaria (Cinctura) rucksorum" = Cinctura snail
Triplofusus acmaensis snail | |
Busycotypus scotti, "Pyruella bladenense" = Busycon, "Sinistrofulgur yeehaw" = Busycon, "Busycon rucksorum" = Busycon carica
Busycotypus scotti whelk
"Pyruella bladenense" = Busycon whelk
"Sinistrofulgur yeehaw" = Busycon whelk
"Busycon rucksorum" = Busycon carica Gmelin 1792 whelk | |
Strioterebrum petiti Olsson 1967 auger snail | |
Ventrilia rucksorum Petuch 1994 snail | |
Anthozoa | |
Septastrea sp. d'Orbigny 1849 stony coral |