Nimravis Posted May 28, 2017 Share Posted May 28, 2017 Well after my Peace River trip from yesterday, I again decided to leave Sanibel Island and venture on to the little island on the causeway heading to Ft. Meyers since I had noticed fresh piles of what believe to have come from a shell put- I was not disappointed. With this post I will show the Gastropods that I collected, from what I believe came from a pit with Pliocene- Pleistocene material from the Caloosahatchee formation (1.8-2.5 MYO). First up is a pic of the island and one of the piles- after that I will posts the fossils. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nimravis Posted May 28, 2017 Author Share Posted May 28, 2017 GASTROPODS (If I make any errors in ID, please advise- these are a little out of my wheel house) Family: Turbinidae Astralium phoebium Turbo castanea Family: Cerithlidae Cerithium preatratum Family: Turritellidae Eichwaldiella pontoni Apicula apicalis Vermicularia recta Family: Strombidae Strombus alatus Family: Crepidulidae Crepidula fornicata Crepidula plana Calyptraea centralis Family: Naticidae Naticarius plicatella Sinum perspectivum 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nimravis Posted May 28, 2017 Author Share Posted May 28, 2017 Family: Muricidae Eupleura caudata Calotrophon ostrearum Family: Buccinidae Cantharus multangulus Pollia auritula Hanetia mengeana Family: Nassariidae Nassairus vibex Family: Melongenidae Sinistrofulgur sinistrum Fulguropsis spiratum Echinofulgur echinatum 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nimravis Posted May 28, 2017 Author Share Posted May 28, 2017 Family: Fasciolariidae Terebraspira scalarina Fasciolaria apicina Fusinus caloosaensis Family: Harpidae Morum oniscus Family: Olividae Oliva sayana Family: Marginellidae Prunum apicinum 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nimravis Posted May 28, 2017 Author Share Posted May 28, 2017 Family: Cancellariidae Cancellaria conradiana Family: Conidae Conus spurius 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nimravis Posted May 28, 2017 Author Share Posted May 28, 2017 Conus floridanus Family Turridae Cymatosyrinx lunata Terebra dislocata 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trevor Posted May 28, 2017 Share Posted May 28, 2017 Awesome finds! : ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coco Posted May 28, 2017 Share Posted May 28, 2017 Hi, Nice shells ! Good idea to have a look on this area ! Coco 1 ---------------------- OUTIL POUR MESURER VOS FOSSILES : ici Ma bibliothèque PDF 1 (Poissons et sélaciens récents & fossiles) : ici Ma bibliothèque PDF 2 (Animaux vivants - sans poissons ni sélaciens) : ici Mâchoires sélaciennes récentes : ici Hétérodontiques et sélaciens : ici Oeufs sélaciens récents : ici Otolithes de poissons récents ! ici Un Greg... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
*THEO* Posted May 28, 2017 Share Posted May 28, 2017 I generally don`t like fossils of mollusks much but I really enjoy these!Nice hunt 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CBOB Posted May 28, 2017 Share Posted May 28, 2017 You sure found a lot! And a nice variety! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kane Posted May 28, 2017 Share Posted May 28, 2017 Top shelf finds, @Nimravis - Thanks for posting these! ...How to Philosophize with a Hammer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digit Posted May 28, 2017 Share Posted May 28, 2017 Somebody had a great time in Florida (and has found a nice reference on the Caloosahatchee Formation). Looks like you put some time into identifying your finds already. I'm sure @MikeR will chime in and correct anything he sees that needs correcting. Glad you made the most of your trip to Florida. Hope you brought an extra suitcase to take home your fossil booty. Cheers. -Ken Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nimravis Posted May 28, 2017 Author Share Posted May 28, 2017 3 hours ago, digit said: Somebody had a great time in Florida (and has found a nice reference on the Caloosahatchee Formation). Looks like you put some time into identifying your finds already. I'm sure @MikeR will chime in and correct anything he sees that needs correcting. Glad you made the most of your trip to Florida. Hope you brought an extra suitcase to take home your fossil booty. Cheers. -Ken Thanks Ken and I always have room in the car. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digit Posted May 28, 2017 Share Posted May 28, 2017 If you are driving down to Florida then you really need to fill all available air spaces in the car with lots of Ordovician material on your way back home from southern Indiana (like Upper Ordovician outcrops of the Cincinnati Arch formation at the St. Leon road cut). Nothing like some brachiopod hash plates to reduce gas mileage. Cheers. -Ken Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nimravis Posted May 28, 2017 Author Share Posted May 28, 2017 34 minutes ago, digit said: If you are driving down to Florida then you really need to fill all available air spaces in the car with lots of Ordovician material on your way back home from southern Indiana (like Upper Ordovician outcrops of the Cincinnati Arch formation at the St. Leon road cut). Nothing like some brachiopod hash plates to reduce gas mileage. Cheers. -Ken Lol- it is already in the plans- a return visit to some Georgia trilobites and a night in Lawrenceburg for their road cut and St. Leon's. Freshwater Snail Planorbella sp. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sixgill pete Posted May 28, 2017 Share Posted May 28, 2017 Fantastic, if I could only get a pile of this stuff in my yard next to my Lee Creek pile. Bulldozers and dirt Bulldozers and dirt behind the trailer, my desert Them red clay piles are heaven on earth I get my rocks off, bulldozers and dirt Patterson Hood; Drive-By Truckers May 2016 May 2012 Aug 2013, May 2016, Apr 2020 Oct 2022 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nimravis Posted May 28, 2017 Author Share Posted May 28, 2017 An addition to the Family: Marginellidae Prunum precursor It is matrix and a little beat up, but on the close up you can see the 5 folds on the columella. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nimravis Posted May 29, 2017 Author Share Posted May 29, 2017 Here is an addition to the Family: Melongenidae Melongena corona And here is a shell I also collected today from the Family: Cypraeidae Siphocypraea problematica 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeR Posted May 29, 2017 Share Posted May 29, 2017 Much of the FDOT fill material was once SMR Pinecrest. Since it has closed it looks as if Caloosahatcheean is taking its place. I have tried to cut back on the ids because of the time it takes however I haven't done one in awhile so here we go! Astralium phoebium – I need an aperture/side view. Either Modulus woodringi or M. modulus. Turbo castanea - correct Cerithium preatratum – Two different species but difficult to tell without the aperture lip. Left maybe C. vincinia and the right C. preatratum Eichwaldiella pontoni – On the left Turritella wagneriana and on the right Vermicularia weberi. Apicula apicalis – Turritella wagneriana Vermicularia recta - Vermicularia weberi Strombus alatus – I would call these S. evergladensis Crepidula fornicata - correct Crepidula plana – Both C. plana and C. depressa are flat to concave species due to an affinity of attaching to the apertures of empty gastropod shells. Both are extant and can only be definitively differentiated by DNA analysis. C. depressa is found in Florida while C. plana is found further north in cooler waters. While the literature describes the fossil as C. plana, I have been using C. depressa for South Florida specimens. Calyptraea centralis – C. centralis is noted to be smooth only displaying growth lines. The top specimen appears to have radial lines which might make it Crucibulum multilineata or Crucibulum spinosum if it has pustules or short spines from the radial lines. Naticarius plicatella – not N. plicatella but I would need an aperture view to identify Sinum perspectivum – not S. perspectivum but a land snail Eupleura caudata – I need an aperture view to confirm. Maybe Eupleura calusa? Calotrophon ostrearum – probably but I would need an aperture view to confirm Cantharus multangulus – ditto on an aperture confirmation Pollia auritula – Gemophos tridentatus Hanetia mengeana – Solenoisteira mengeana Nassairus vibex - correct Sinistrofulgur sinistrum – S. sinistrum is the extant species from Florida. I feel that the fossil species are excessively split although some have been given credence in the FPS Florida Fossil Invertebrate (FFI) series. I tend to call most of the Plio-Pleistocene fossil forms S. contrarium. Fulguropsis spiratum - correct Echinofulgur echinatum - correct Terebraspira scalarina - correct Fasciolaria apicina - correct Fusinus caloosaensis – Immature Turbinella regina Morum oniscus – correct and a nice find of a rare species. Oliva sayana – As badly split Sinistrofulgur is, Oliva is even worse. Olsson and Harbinson (think of it as the Caloosahatchee Bible) lists an Oliva species which has a spire height intermediate between extant Oliva sayana and Pliocene Oliva carolinensis. They called it O. carolinensis however I believe it is this species which Petuch has named as O. rosae. Petuch has named another species O. rucksorum from the contemporaneous Nashua and Waccamaw Formations which appears identical to O. rosae. Both have been listed in FFI although no systematic study has been performed. You could go with O. sayana, O. rosae, or O. cf. carolinensis and I could not complain. Prunum apicinum – probably P. pardalis Cancellaria conradiana – probably correct but difficult to confirm an incomplete specimen Conus spurius - correct Conus floridanus – Conasprella jaspideus Cymatosyrinx lunata – Pyrazisinus scalatus Terebra dislocata - correct Planorbella sp. – probably P. disstoni Prunum precursor – correct and good id by recognizing the five columnar folds Melongena corona – M. subcoronata Siphocypraea problematica – correct and a classic guide fossil to the Caloosahatchee 5 "A problem solved is a problem caused"--Karl Pilkington "I was dead for millions of years before I was born and it never inconvenienced me a bit." -- Mark Twain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nimravis Posted May 29, 2017 Author Share Posted May 29, 2017 @MikeR - man I really blew a lot of those- I was using a Florida Fossil Seashell book that purchased and thought I was close on most of them. Really appreciate you correcting some of these. It has been fun collecting these and I wish that I could have gained access to a pit that I collected years ago- it was a blast. Thanks Again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nimravis Posted May 29, 2017 Author Share Posted May 29, 2017 1 hour ago, Nimravis said: @MikeR - man I really blew a lot of those- I was using a Florida Fossil Seashell book that purchased and thought I was close on most of them. Really appreciate you correcting some of these. It has been fun collecting these and I wish that I could have gained access to a pit that I collected years ago- it was a blast. Thanks Again. @MikeR - I checked my book and a lot of those specimens are not mentioned- thanks again for the info. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeR Posted May 29, 2017 Share Posted May 29, 2017 3 hours ago, Nimravis said: @MikeR - man I really blew a lot of those- I was using a Florida Fossil Seashell book that purchased and thought I was close on most of them. Really appreciate you correcting some of these. It has been fun collecting these and I wish that I could have gained access to a pit that I collected years ago- it was a blast. Thanks Again. If you used a seashell book for recent Florida shells, that makes since. Around 80% of the Upper Pliocene molluscan fauna, a little less of the Pleistocene fauna, became extinct due subsequent glacial/interglacials of the ice age. Mike 2 "A problem solved is a problem caused"--Karl Pilkington "I was dead for millions of years before I was born and it never inconvenienced me a bit." -- Mark Twain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plantguy Posted June 11, 2017 Share Posted June 11, 2017 Enjoyed seeing this post and your finds as well and all of the ID's. The #'s of species to be collected are mind numbing in some of these sites down here. Congrats! Regards, Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nimravis Posted June 12, 2017 Author Share Posted June 12, 2017 19 hours ago, Plantguy said: Enjoyed seeing this post and your finds as well and all of the ID's. The #'s of species to be collected are mind numbing in some of these sites down here. Congrats! Regards, Chris Chris- you are correct. I really like collecting fossil shells when I am down there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnBrewer Posted June 12, 2017 Share Posted June 12, 2017 What a superb collection and from one site. They're in stunning shape to. John Map of UK fossil sites Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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