MD 4 - Fil-Delmas, Las Cahobas Formation (Miocene of Haiti)

Where: Haiti (18.5° N, 72.3° W: paleocoordinates 18.5° N, 71.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Las Cahobas Formation (Artibonite Group), Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)

• Stated in text as being from "Miocene moyen et superior". Graham (1990) reports the Las Cahobas Formation as being Late Miocene in age based on floral microfossil biostratigraphy, while other authors (e.g. Van den Bold 1970, 1976) report a middle Miocene-Late Miocene age. The enterer (A. Hendy) assigns the Late Miocene age on the basis of most recent and confined age assessments.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine

• Unknown taphonomic data. Requires translation.
• Unknown taphonomic data. Requires translation.

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: quarrying,

• Unknown collection repository. Requires translation.

Primary reference: J. Butterlin. 1960. Géologie générale et régionale de la République D'Haiti. Travaux et Mémoires de L'Institute des Hautes Estudes de L'Amérique Latine 6:1-190 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/S. Ávila]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 60110: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 01.05.2006

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Taxonomic list

• Exhaustive for marcroinvertebrates, including coelenterata, brachiopoda, echinoidea, bivalvia and gastropoda.
Thecostraca
 Balanomorpha - Balanidae
Balanus cf. eburneus Gould 1841 barnacle
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
"Ostrea folioides" = Dendostrea frons Linnaeus 1758 oyster
"Ostrea folium" = Dendostrea folium Linnaeus 1758 foliate oyster
Ostrea cf. democraciana Hodson et al. 1927 oyster
Ostrea messor2 Maury 1925 oyster
Ostrea guppyi Woodring 1925 oyster
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
 Arcida - Arcidae
Anadara prephina Woodring 1925 ark
 Cardiida - Solecurtidae
 Cardiida - Veneridae
Pitar sp. Römer 1857 venus clam
 Cardiida - Glossidae
"Isocardia cf. fraterna" = Glossus fraterna
"Isocardia cf. fraterna" = Glossus fraterna Say 1824 clam
 Pholadida - Corbulidae
"Corbula viminea" = Bothrocorbula viminea1
"Corbula viminea" = Bothrocorbula viminea1 Guppy 1866 clam