GM 7 - Gros Morne, Las Cahobas Formation: Late/Upper Miocene, Haiti
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia
- Ostreida
- Gryphaeidae
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Ostrea haitensis
Sowerby 1850
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recombined as Hyotissa haitensis | |||||||
Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Conidae
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Conus haitensis
(Sowerby 1849)
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synonym of Conus (Pyruconus) haytensis | |||||||
Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Montastraeidae
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Heliastrea endothecata
(Duncan 1863)
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recombined as Montastrea endothecata | |||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | Haiti |
Coordinates: | 18.5° North, 72.3° West (view map) |
Paleocoordinates: | 18.5° North, 71.5° West |
Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
Key time interval: | Late/Upper Miocene | ||
Age range of interval: | 11.63000 - 5.33300 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Geological group: | Artibonite | Formation: | Las Cahobas | ||
Local section: | Gros Morne | ||||
Regional section: | Cul-de-Sac | ||||
Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: 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. |
Lithology and environment
Lithology description: Unknown taphonomic data. Requires translation. | |
Environment: | marine indet. |
Geology comments: Unknown taphonomic data. Requires translation. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | selective quarrying,field collection |
Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Collection method comments: Unknown collection repository. Requires translation. | |
Taxonomic list comments:Exhaustive for marcroinvertebrates, including coelenterata, brachiopoda, echinoidea, bivalvia and gastropoda. |
Metadata
Database number: | 60100 | ||
Authorizer: | A. Hendy | Enterer: | A. Hendy | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
Created: | 2006-05-01 09:43:25 | Last modified: | 2013-11-25 13:37:23 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2006-05-01 09:43:24 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
17269. | 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] |