Where: Trinidad and Tobago (10.2° N, 61.6° W: paleocoordinates 10.2° N, 60.9° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Courbaril Member (Morne l'Enfer Formation), Early/Lower Pliocene (5.3 - 3.6 Ma)
• Collection is from the Courbaril Sand and Clay Member of the Upper Morne l'Enfer Formation. The Courbaril fauna is considered to be of early Pliocene age and is probably slightly older than the Matura fauna.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shoreface; poorly lithified sandstone and claystone
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 60653: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 19.05.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Brachidontes (Brachidontes) sp. Swainson 1840 mussel | |
Semele proficua Pulteney 1799 clam
Semele aff. anteriocosta Vokes 1938 clam | |
Tagelus (Tagelus) plebeius Lightfoot 1786 clam | |
Donax brightonensis clam | |
Strigilla (? Pisostrigilla) sp., Strigilla (Strigilla) carnaria, Temnoconcha aff. brasiliana, "Moerella (Moerella) elinguis" = Tellina (Moerella), "Eurytellina melajoensis" = Tellina (Eurytellina), "? Eurytellina oligoscissulata" = Tellina (Eurytellina), Eurytellina punicea
Strigilla (? Pisostrigilla) sp. tellin clam
Strigilla (Strigilla) carnaria Linnaeus 1758 tellin clam
Temnoconcha aff. brasiliana tellin clam
"Moerella (Moerella) elinguis" = Tellina (Moerella) tellin clam
"Eurytellina melajoensis" = Tellina (Eurytellina) tellin clam
"? Eurytellina oligoscissulata" = Tellina (Eurytellina) tellin clam
Eurytellina punicea Born 1778 tellin clam | |
"Chione (Lirophora) sanctidavidis" = Lirophora, Chione (Nioche) veatchiana
"Chione (Lirophora) sanctidavidis" = Lirophora venus clam
Chione (Nioche) veatchiana Maury 1912 venus clam | |
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Gastropoda | |
Cerithium harrisi cerith snail | |
Turritella (Broderiptella) bifastigata Nelson 1870 turret shell Subspecies: T. (B.) bifastigata cartagenensis
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"Natica (Naticarius) aff. canrena" = Naticarius canrena
"Natica (Naticarius) aff. canrena" = Naticarius canrena Linnaeus 1758 moon snail | |
"Bullata maturensis" = Closia (Bullata)
"Bullata maturensis" = Closia (Bullata) volute | |
"Cymia brightoniana" = Cymia (Cymia) brightoniana Maury 1925 murex snail | |
Calyptraea centralis Conrad 1841 slipper shell |