Where: Grenada (12.5° N, 61.4° W: paleocoordinates 12.2° N, 61.1° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Grand Bay Formation, Middle Miocene (16.0 - 11.6 Ma)
• The principal, nominal sedimentary units of the mid-Tertiary succession of Carriacou are the Belmont Formation (lower Miocene), Kendeace Formation (lower Miocene), Carriacou Formation (middle Miocene) and Grand Bay Formation (middle Miocene). The collection originates from sandy facies of the Grand Bay Fm. Jung (1971) assigns this a Middle Miocene age based on faunal affinities with other circum-Caribbean units.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; poorly lithified tuff
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the NMB
• Naturhistorisches Museum, Basel, Switzerland.
Primary reference: P. Jung. 1971. Fossil mollusks from Carriacou, West Indies. Bulletins of American Paleontology 61(269):1-262 [A. Miller/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 58683: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 20.02.2006, edited by Uta Merkel
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Scaphopoda | |
"Dentalium cf. uscarianum" = Fissidentalium uscarianum
"Dentalium cf. uscarianum" = Fissidentalium uscarianum Olsson 1922 tusk shell | |
Gastropoda | |
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Crucibulum sp. Schumacher 1817 slipper shell | |
Polinices prolacteus moon snail | |
Cymatophos glareosus Jung 1971 true whelk | |
Conus sp. Linnaeus 1758 cone shell | |
Polystira opulenta Jung 1971 turrid | |
Oliva (? Omogymna) valens Jung 1971 olive snail
Oliva (? Strephonella) delata Jung 1971 olive snail | |
Ficus carriacouensis Trechmann 1935 fig shell | |
Bivalvia | |
Ostrea sp. Linnaeus 1758 oyster | |
Cardita sp. Bruguière 1792 clam | |
Anthozoa | |
Stylophora monticulosa Vaughan and Hoffmeister 1925 stony coral |