Leisey Shell Pit 1A (Pleistocene of the United States)
Where: Hillsborough County, Florida (27.7° N, 82.5° W: paleocoordinates 27.7° N, 82.3° W)
• coordinate stated in text
When: Bermont Formation, Irvingtonian (1.8 - 0.3 Ma)
• said to be early Irvingtonian
Environment/lithology: estuary or bay; unlithified sandstone and unlithified siltstone
• "shallow coastal mangrove-lined bay located adjacent to, or at the mouth of a river"
• "unconsolidated, poorly sorted... fine-grained sand, silt, and dark brown mud" with many mollusc, vertebrate, and plant fossils
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collection methods: quarrying
Primary reference: R. C. Hulbert, Jr. and G. S. Morgan. 1989. Papers in Florida Paleontology 2 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy] more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 20400: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 18.02.1993
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