Sarasota Shell Bed Information

These scientific articles will help you learn more about the fossils of Sarasota, Florida.

Allmon, W.D., 1993, Age, environment and mode of deposition of the densely fossiliferous Pinecrest Sand (Pliocene of Florida): implications for the role of biological productivity in shell bed formation: Palaios, v. 8, p. 183-201.

Allmon, W.D.; Rosenberg, G.; Portell, R.W.; and Schindler, K.S., 1993, Diversity ofAtlantic coastal plain mollusks since the Pliocene: Science, v. 260, p.1626-1628.

Allmon, W.D.; Rosenberg, G.; Portell, R.W.; and Schindler, K.S., 1995, Diversity ofPliocene-Recent mollusks in the Western Atlantic: extinction, origination and environmental change: in, Jackson, J.B.C., Coates, A.G., and Budd, A.F.,eds., Evolution and environment in tropical America over the last ten million years: Chicago, University of Chicago Press (in press).

Emslie, S.D., 1995, A catastrophic death assemblage of a new species of cormorant and other seabirds from the Late Pliocene of Florida: Jour. Vert. Paleo. v. 15, p.313-330.

Emslie, S.D.; and Morgan, G.S., 1994, A catastrophic death assemblage and paleoclimatic implications of Pliocene seabirds of Florida: Science v. 264, p. 684-685.

Jones, D.S.; McFadden, B.J.; Webb, D.S.; Mueller, P.A.; Hodell, D.A.; and Cronin, T.M.,1991, Integrated geochronology of a classic Pliocene fossil site in Florida:linking marine and terrestrial biochronologies: Jour. Geol., v. 99, p. 637-648.

Lyons, W.G., 1991, Post-Miocene species of Latirus Montfort, 1810 (Mollusca: Fasciolariidae) of southern Florida, with a review of regional marine biostratigraphy: Bull. Florida Mus.Nat. Hist.,Biol.Sci., v. 35(3), p.131-208.

Scott, T.M.; and Allmon, W.D. (eds.), 1992, The Plio-Pleistocene stratigraphy and paleontology of southern Florida: Florida Geological Survey Special Publication no. 36, 194 p.

Spizuco, M.P.; Kinkel, M.D.; Morgan, G.S.; and Allmon, W.D., 1993, Taphonomy of a shark-scavenged baleen whale from the Late Pliocene "Pinecrest Beds" of Florida: Geol. Soc. Am. Abst. with Prog., v. 25(4), p.A71.

Stanley, S.M., 1986, Anatomy of a regional mass extinction: Plio-Pleistocene decimation of the western Atlantic bivalve fauna: Palaios, v. 1, p. 7-36.

Willard, D.A.; Cronin, T.M.; Ishman, S.E.; and Litwin, R.J., 1993, Terrestrial and marine records of climatic and environmental changes during the Pliocene in subtropical Florida. Geology, v. 21, p. 679-682.