. Bulletins of American paleontology. by the Everglades Biofacies lies at the boundary betweenthe freshwater Everglades and the marine Florida Playa Biofacies develops on the shallow, frequent-ly inundated, evaporitic flats that form the interior ofmany of the mud keys in the Bay. The Mud Flat Bio-facies forms on flats, commonly the site of mangrovethickets, which develop on the rock keys and locallyalong the edge of the Everglades. Finally there is theRocky Shore Biofacies found on rocky outcrops alongthe Atlantic side of the rock keys. Everglades Biofacies This biofacies refl

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. Bulletins of American paleontology. by the Everglades Biofacies lies at the boundary betweenthe freshwater Everglades and the marine Florida Playa Biofacies develops on the shallow, frequent-ly inundated, evaporitic flats that form the interior ofmany of the mud keys in the Bay. The Mud Flat Bio-facies forms on flats, commonly the site of mangrovethickets, which develop on the rock keys and locallyalong the edge of the Everglades. Finally there is theRocky Shore Biofacies found on rocky outcrops alongthe Atlantic side of the rock keys. Everglades Biofacies This biofacies reflects the freshwater effect of theEverglades. In its pure form it would consist entirelyof terrestrial or freshwater shells. In samples from thenorthern edge of the Bay, however, there is normallyan admixture of Northern Biofacies marine shells. KEY TAXA: Two small nonmarine snail shellsdominate Everglades samples. The first is Hydrobiatotteni () (Text-fig. 19C), and the other we knowonly by its Amoco designation. Gastropod 2482. B J t i r* \ § ^ i)

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