Where: Trinidad and Tobago (10.6° N, 61.1° W: paleocoordinates 10.5° N, 59.6° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Melajo Clay Member (Springvale Formation), Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)
• The Melajo Clay Member of the Springvale Formation is correlated with the Savaneta Glaconitic Sandstone Member of the Springvale Formation, although part of it may be younger. The Melajo fauna is late Miocene in age. The Melajo Clay rests transgressively on the phyllites of the Northern Range with a basal conglomerate of about 1 m thickness. The conglomerate graes into a 1.5 m thick limestone, which is overlain by a bed of sand of about 1 m thickness. Above the sand is the Melajo Clay. The total thickness of the Melajo Clay is about 200 ft. It is unconformably overlain by Pleistocene sand and gravel deposits.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; unlithified, yellow, blue, silty claystone and unlithified, coarse-grained sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the PRI, USNM
Collection methods: quarrying,
• All material descibed in this report is reposited in the Naturhistorisches Mueum, Basel, or the USNM. Additional material collection from this unit is found at PRI.
Primary reference: P. Jung. 1969. Miocene and Pliocene mollusks from Trinidad. Bulletins of American Paleontology 55(247):293-697 [A. Miller/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 60632: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 19.05.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Scaphopoda | |
Dentalium (Dentalium) divulgatum tusk shell | |
Bivalvia | |
Noetia (Eontia) centrota Guppy 1867 clam | |
Anadara (Anadara) inaequilateralis, "Anadara (Scapharca) placata" = Scapharca
Anadara (Anadara) inaequilateralis Maury 1917 ark
"Anadara (Scapharca) placata" = Scapharca clam | |
Anomia simplex d'Orbigny 1845 jingle | |
Crassinella guppyi Dall 1896 clam | |
Caryocorbula (Caryocorbula) sp. Gardner 1926 clam | |
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"Moerella (Moerella) elinguis" = Tellina (Moerella), "Eurytellina melajoensis" = Tellina (Eurytellina), "? Eurytellina oligoscissulata" = Tellina (Eurytellina)
"Moerella (Moerella) elinguis" = Tellina (Moerella) tellin clam
"Eurytellina melajoensis" = Tellina (Eurytellina) tellin clam
"? Eurytellina oligoscissulata" = Tellina (Eurytellina) tellin clam | |
Dosinia (Dosinia) sp. Scopoli 1777 venus clam
Pitar (Lamelliconcha) circinatus venus clam | |
"Adrana perprotracta" = Adrana newcombi, "Nuculana (Saccella) ludificans" = Saccella
"Adrana perprotracta" = Adrana newcombi Angas 1878 pointed nut clam
"Nuculana (Saccella) ludificans" = Saccella pointed nut clam | |
Gastropoda | |
Solariorbis marginatus snail | |
"Calliostoma olssoni" = Calliostoma (Elmerlinia) olssoni
"Calliostoma olssoni" = Calliostoma (Elmerlinia) olssoni Maury 1925 top snail | |
Cylichnella altera snail
Acteocina canaliculata Say 1826 barrel-bubble | |
Eulimella (Eulimella) "sp. A", Eulimella (Ebalina) mitis, Turbonilla "sp. A", Turbonilla "sp. B", Turbonilla "sp. D"
Eulimella (Eulimella) "sp. A" Forbes and MacAndrew 1846 snail
Turbonilla "sp. A" Risso 1826 snail
Turbonilla "sp. B" Risso 1826 snail
Turbonilla "sp. D" Risso 1826 snail | |
"Neritina (Vitta) cf. olssoni" = Vitta
"Neritina (Vitta) cf. olssoni" = Vitta snail | |
Epitonium (Asperiscala) rohri wentletrap
Epitonium (Epitonium) aff. foliaceicostatum wentletrap | |
Turritella (Broderiptella) planigyrata Guppy 1867 turret shell | |
"Natica (Naticarius) aff. canrena" = Naticarius canrena, Polinices stanislasmeunieri
"Natica (Naticarius) aff. canrena" = Naticarius canrena Linnaeus 1758 moon snail
Polinices stanislasmeunieri Maury 1917 moon snail | |
Cyclostremiscus (Ponocyclus) pentagonus Gabb 1873 snail | |
Anachis (Costoanachis) fraudans, "Anachis (Costoanachis) obesa" = Parvanachis obesa, "Strombina (Sincola) crassilabrum" = Sincola (Sincola) crassilabrum
"Anachis (Costoanachis) obesa" = Parvanachis obesa Adams 1845 snail
"Strombina (Sincola) crassilabrum" = Sincola (Sincola) crassilabrum Guppy 1874 snail | |
Nassarius (Uzita) trinitatensis Jung 1969 snail | |
"Olivella (Dactylidia) aff. mutica" = Olivella mutica, Olivella (Minioliva) fundarugata
"Olivella (Dactylidia) aff. mutica" = Olivella mutica Say 1822 olive snail
Olivella (Minioliva) fundarugata olive snail | |
Agladrillia lassula snail | |
Ithycythara hilaris snail | |
Calotrophon hutchisoni murex snail | |
Crepidula plana Say 1822 slipper shell
Calyptraea centralis Conrad 1841 slipper shell |