1000 ft W of Brighton Pier: Early/Lower Miocene, Trinidad and Tobago
collected by Veatch & Maury

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Marginellidae
Marginella dalliana Maury 1912
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Corbulidae
Corbula (Bothrocorbula) smithiana Maury 1912
recombined as Bothrocorbula smithiana
Corbula (Cuneocorbula) helenae Maury 1912
recombined as Cuneocorbula helenae
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
Chione veatchiana Maury 1912
Chione dalliana Maury 1912
Pitaria (Lamelliconcha) circinata (Born 1778)
recombined as Lamelliconcha circinata
Pitaria (Lamelliconcha) labreana Maury 1912
recombined as Lamelliconcha labreana
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Mactridae
Mactra austeniana Maury 1912
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
Cardium (Trigoniocardia) carolinae Maury 1912
recombined as Trigoniocardia carolinae
Bivalvia - Arcida - Noetiidae
Arca (Noetia) sheldoniana Maury 1912
recombined as Noetia sheldoniana
see common names

Geography
Country:Trinidad and Tobago
Coordinates: 10.3° North, 61.6° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:9.7° North, 57.9° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 5
Key time interval:Early/Lower Miocene
Age range of interval:23.03000 - 15.98000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From unnamed lithostratigraphic unit. Presumably overlies Eocene (said to be basal Eocene) beds, and is in turn regionally overlain by Miocene through Pleistocene strata. AGE: Oligocene, and probably Late Oligocene, although correlated by the author to the "Chipolan" (=Chipola Fm of Florida, Early Miocene) in age, so perhaps younger than author suggested. Here assigned to Early Miocene on the basis of faunal composition. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within regional section.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified tar
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Preserved within asphalt. LITHIFICATION: Lithified, based on facies description and figured specimens.
Environment:coastal indet.
Geology comments: ENVIRONMENT: Shallow marine siliciclastic setting.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:PRI
Collectors:Veatch & Maury
Collection method comments: COLLECTORS: A. Veatch and C. Maury, c. 1912. REPOSITORY: PRI, Ithaca (NY).
Taxonomic list comments:COVERAGE: Exhaustive for gastropoda and bivalvia. NOMENCLATURE: An authoritative publication, but rather antiquated, though with identifications made to species resolution.
Metadata
Database number:80167
Authorizer:A. Hendy Enterer:A. Hendy
Modifier:A. Hendy Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2008-04-07 18:37:17 Last modified:2013-11-25 13:37:23
Access level:the public Released:2008-04-07 18:37:17
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
26958. C. J. Maury. 1912. A contribution to the paleontology of Trinidad. Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 15:1-112 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]