Also known as USGS 21611

Where: Northern Mariana Islands (15.0° N, 145.6° E: paleocoordinates 15.0° N, 146.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Mariana Limestone Formation, Early/Lower Pliocene (5.3 - 3.6 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the regional equivalent of the Mariana Limestone, which overlies Pliocene terrace deposits and is overlain by the Tanapag Limestone (Pleistocene). AGE: Early Pliocene on the basis of foraminiferal biostratigraphy. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Composite list undifferentiated Mariana Limestone equivalent localities.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Bridge in 1945; reposited in the USNM

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• COLLECTORS: J. Bridge (1945). REPOSITORY: USNM (formely USGS collections).

Primary reference: H. S. Ladd. 1966. Chitons and Gastropods (Haliotidae through Adeorbidae) from Western Pacific Islands. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 531:1-98 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/J. Millet]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 77940: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 23.01.2008

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