Where: Trinidad and Tobago (10.1° N, 62.0° W: paleocoordinates 7.2° N, 49.2° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Soldado Formation, Thanetian (59.2 - 56.0 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From unnamed lithostratigraphic unit. Presumably underlies supposed Oligocene beds. AGE: Early Eocene, based on authors suggestion of "basal Eocene", correlations to Midway Eocene beds and Clayton, Georgia. Assigned to here to the Late Paleocene based on present day biostratigraphic data. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From bed 2, near base of section.
•JA: "equivalent to European Montian and Thanetian of England" = Thanetian according to Maury 1929
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified, shelly/skeletal, gray, red limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Veatch & Maury; reposited in the PRI
• COLLECTORS: A. Veatch and C. Maury, c. 1912. REPOSITORY: PRI, Ithaca (NY).
Primary reference: 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]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 80170: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 07.04.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Cerithium soldadense Maury 1912 cerith snail | |
Mesalia pumila, "Turritella mortoni" = Kapalmerella mortoni, Turritella nerinexa, Turritella humerosa, Turritella soldadensis
"Turritella mortoni" = Kapalmerella mortoni Conrad 1830 turret shell
Turritella nerinexa Harris 1895 turret shell
Turritella soldadensis Maury 1912 turret shell | |
Amauropsis caloramans Maury 1912 moon snail | |
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? Strepsidura soldadensis Maury 1912 true whelk
Pseudoliva bocaserpentis Maury 1912 true whelk | |
"Levifusus pagoda" = Levifusus pagodiformis
"Levifusus pagoda" = Levifusus pagodiformis Heilprin 1881 snail | |
"Clavella hubbardanus" = Clavilithes hubbardanus, "Clavella harrisii" = Clavilithes harrisii, "Fusus mohrioides" = Fusinus mohrioides, "Fusus bocaserpentis" = Fusinus bocaserpentis, "Fusus colubri" = Fusinus colubri, "Fusus meunieri" = Fusinus meunieri, "Fusus sewalliana" = Fusinus sewalliana, "Fusus sirenideditus" = Fusinus sirenideditus, "Latirus tortilis" = Pseudolatirus tortilis
"Clavella hubbardanus" = Clavilithes hubbardanus Harris 1896 snail
"Clavella harrisii" = Clavilithes harrisii Maury 1912 snail
"Fusus mohrioides" = Fusinus mohrioides Maury 1912 snail
"Fusus bocaserpentis" = Fusinus bocaserpentis Maury 1912 snail
"Fusus colubri" = Fusinus colubri Maury 1912 snail
"Fusus meunieri" = Fusinus meunieri Maury 1912 snail
"Fusus sewalliana" = Fusinus sewalliana Maury 1912 snail
"Fusus sirenideditus" = Fusinus sirenideditus Maury 1912 snail
"Latirus tortilis" = Pseudolatirus tortilis Whitfield 1865 snail | |
Volutilithes pariaensis Maury 1912 volute
Caricella perpinguis Maury 1912 volute
Caricella ogilviana Maury 1912 volute | |
Trophon progne White 1887 murex snail | |
"Cypraea bartlettiana" = Sphaerocypraea bartlettiana
"Cypraea bartlettiana" = Sphaerocypraea bartlettiana Maury 1912 snail | |
"Cypraea vaughani" = Cypraeorbis vaughani
"Cypraea vaughani" = Cypraeorbis vaughani Maury 1912 cowry | |
Rostellaria (Veatchia) carolinae Maury 1912 true conch | |
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"Calyptraea aperta" = Calyptraea (Trochita) aperta
"Calyptraea aperta" = Calyptraea (Trochita) aperta Solander 1766 slipper shell | |
Bivalvia | |
Cucullaea harttii Rathburn 1875 clam | |
"Glycymeris (Axinaea) viamediae" = Axinaea viamediae
"Glycymeris (Axinaea) viamediae" = Axinaea viamediae Maury 1912 clam | |
Ostrea pulaskensis Harris 1892 oyster
Ostrea crenulimarginata Gabb 1860 oyster
Ostrea thalassoklusta Maury 1912 oyster
Ostrea cynthiae Maury 1912 oyster | |
"Ostrea cf. percrassa" = Pycnodonte percrassa
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Chione paraensis White 1887 venus clam | |
Venericardia thalassoplekta, "Venericardia planicosta" = Venericor planicosta, "Venericardia alticostata" = Venericardia (Claibornicardia) alticostata
Venericardia thalassoplekta Maury 1912 clam
"Venericardia planicosta" = Venericor planicosta Lamarck 1801 clam
"Venericardia alticostata" = Venericardia (Claibornicardia) alticostata Conrad 1833 clam |