Where: Trinidad and Tobago (10.6° N, 61.3° W: paleocoordinates 10.6° N, 60.5° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Caparo Clay Member (Talparo Formation), Early/Lower Pliocene (5.3 - 3.6 Ma)
• SOURCE: collected from within a 15 ft lens of sandstone situated in the upper part of the Caparo Clay. STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: The Calparo Clay Mbr is the middle member in the Talparo Fm. The Matura Fm is probably equivalent to the Calparo Clay. BIOSTRATIGRAPHY: no biostratigraphic data reported, but is assigned an Early Pliocene age in the text and correlated to the Marura Fm, also Pliocene in age.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: estuary or bay; unlithified, glauconitic, sideritic, conglomeratic sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: quarrying,
• COLLECTOR: Karl Rohr (1937). REPOSITORY: Reposited at NHMB.
Primary reference: P. Jung. 1969. A Pliocene molluscan faunule from Trinidad. Bulletins of American Paleontology 7:85-89 [A. Miller/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 61297: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 04.06.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Neritina sp. Lamarck 1816 snail | |
Diodora cayenensis Lamarck 1822 snail | |
"Natica (Naticarius) aff. canrena" = Naticarius canrena
"Natica (Naticarius) aff. canrena" = Naticarius canrena Linnaeus 1758 moon snail | |
Olivella (Niteoliva) cf. verreauxii olive snail | |
"Prunum (Prunum) aff. dallianum" = Prunum (Prunum) dallianum
"Prunum (Prunum) aff. dallianum" = Prunum (Prunum) dallianum Maury 1912 margin shell | |
Cerithiopsis sp. Hanley 1849 snail | |
Triphora sp. Blainville 1828 snail | |
"Crucibulum (Crucibulum) piliferum" = Crucibulum (Crucibulum) piliferum
"Crucibulum (Crucibulum) piliferum" = Crucibulum (Crucibulum) piliferum Guppy 1867 slipper shell | |
"Turritella (Broderiptella) aff. planigyrata" = Turritella (Broderiptella) planigyrata
"Turritella (Broderiptella) aff. planigyrata" = Turritella (Broderiptella) planigyrata Guppy 1867 turret shell | |
Modulus sp. Gray 1842 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
"Trachycardium (Dallocardia) sanctidavidis" = Dallocardia
"Trachycardium (Dallocardia) sanctidavidis" = Dallocardia cockle | |
Donax cf. striatus Linnaeus 1767 clam | |
Semele purpurascens Gmelin 1791 clam | |
Strigilla (Pisostrigilla) pisiformis Linnaeus 1758 tellin clam | |
Juliacorbula aequivalvis Philippi 1836 clam | |
Crassinella sp. Guppy 1874 clam | |
Noetia (Eontia) centrota Guppy 1867 clam | |
Ostrea sp. Linnaeus 1758 oyster | |
Anomia simplex d'Orbigny 1845 jingle | |
Aequipecten (Plagioctenium) sp. Fischer 1886 scallop | |
Brachidontes sp. Swainson 1840 mussel |