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Tamiami Formation

 About 2 to 2.5 million years before present

Pliocene Epoch - South Florida
Encope Tamiamiensis

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Encope Tamiamiensis
Internal Mold 
Internal Mold of 
an Arc shell
Internal Mold of 
an Arc shell
Fossil Barnacle

Kittens Paw
Pecten
Pecten
Pecten
Pecten

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The Tamiami formation consists of marine sands and limestones. The fossils in this formation have often been dissolved away leaving only the internal and external molds in the carbonate (limey) mud that had been inside or outside of  the shell. An exception to this are the sand dollars, and sea urchin fossils (echinoids). These fossils are often very well preserved because of a slight difference in the chemical composition of the calcite (CaCO3) minerals that they were made of.  Often additional calcite has been deposited inside the pore spaces of the fossil. These new crystal overgrowths are in perfect alignment with the orientation of the original calcite shell material. These new overgrowths are called syntaxial overgrowths and they only occur under special diagenetic (alteration )conditions.

Encope Tamiamiensis


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Fossil Barnacle

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Internal Mold of an Arc Shell

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Internal Mold of an Arc Shell


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Internal Mold OF A BIVALVE



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Kitten's Paw



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Pecten



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Pecten Internal Mold


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Pecten with Encope tamiamiensis

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Assorted Fossils

 

 
A.) MELLITDAE Encope tamiamiensis
B.) MELLITDAE Encope tamiamiensis
C.) MELLITDAE Encope tamiamiensis
D.) MELLITDAE Encope tamiamiensis
E.) Internal mold (cardium?)
F.) Internal mold of a Kitten's Paw
G.) external mold (unknown)
H.) Internal mold of an Olive Shell. (OLIVIDAE Oliva)
I.) Internal mold (unknown)
J.) Pecten (PECTINIDAE Argopecton  evergladensis)
K.) Internal mold of a Gastropod (TURRITELLIDAE Turritella)
L.) Internal mold of a Gastropod (Moon Snail)
M.) Internal mold of a Bivalve (Arc)
N.) Pecten (PECTINIDAE Argopecton  evergladensis)
O.) Internal mold unknown
P.) Internal mold unknown
Q.) Pecten (PECTINIDAE Corolinapecton eboreus)
R.) Pecten (PECTINIDAE Argopecton  evergladensis)
S.) Pecten (PECTINIDAE Argopecton  evergladensis)

 
 
 
 

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