Where: Haiti (18.5° N, 72.5° W: paleocoordinates 18.5° N, 71.7° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Las Cahobas Formation (Artibonite Group), Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)
• 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.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: quarrying,
• Unknown collection repository. Requires translation.
Primary reference: 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]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 60097: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 01.05.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Heliastrea limbata stony coral | |
Diploria sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral | |
Gastropoda | |
Polinices sp. Monfort 1810 moon snail | |
Torinia rotundata snail | |
Diacria sp. Gray 1847 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Arca sp. Linnaeus 1758 ark | |
"Chlamys guppyi" = Cyclopecten guppyi
"Chlamys guppyi" = Cyclopecten guppyi Dall 1898 mud scallop | |
"Nucula cf. cahuitensis" = Nucula (Nucula) cahuitensis
"Nucula cf. cahuitensis" = Nucula (Nucula) cahuitensis Olsson 1922 nut clam |