Where: Marshall Islands (11.6° N, 165.4° E: paleocoordinates 8.6° N, 171.6° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From an undifferentiated lithostratigraphic unit. AGE: Late Miocene, on the basis of foraminiferal biostratigraphy. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: A composite from several beds within the section of drill core of 900-1000 ft.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; unlithified, shelly/skeletal, brown mixed carbonate-siliciclastic sediments
Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils
Preservation: original aragonite
Collected by JTF in 1947; reposited in the USNM
Collection methods: core,
• COLLECTOR: Operation Crossroads, Joint Task Force One, 1947. REPOSITORY: USNM.
Primary reference: K. O. Emery, J. I. Tracey, and H.S. Ladd. 1954. Geology of Bikini and nearby atolls: Part 1, Geology. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 260(A):1-265 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/R. McClees-Funinan]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 43339: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 12.08.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Ulvophyceae | |
Halimeda sp. Lamouroux 1812 | |
Foraminifera | |
Tubothalamea | |
Foraminifera | |
Textularia sp. Defrance 1824 | |
Anthozoa | |
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Acropora sp. Oken 1815 stony coral | |
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Rissoina (Rissoina) abbotti1, Rissoina (Rissoina) lomaloana1, "Amphithalmus (Cerostraca) jeffcoati" = Pusillina (Haurakia) jeffcoati1, Merelina (Merelina) pisinna1
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"Petaloconchus (Macrophragma) merkana" = Macrophragma2
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"Architectonica (Pseudotorinia) corwini" = Pseudotorinia2
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Bivalvia | |
Cardium sp. Linnaeus 1758 cockle |