Where: Trinidad and Tobago (10.3° N, 61.5° W: paleocoordinates 9.0° N, 56.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• basin-level geographic resolution

When: Flat Rock Member (San Fernando Formation), Oligocene (33.9 - 23.0 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the informal "Bamboo Marl" [=Flat Rock tongue Mbr of the San Fernando Fm], which is a letarl equivalent of the Cipero Marl (Oligocene). AGE: Middle-Late Oligocene on the basis of large foraminiferal biostratigraphy. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From the "Bamboo Clay, which separates Zones I and II of the San Fernando Fm.

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified claystone

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Collection methods: COLLECTORS: Multiple collectors, including R. Rutsch (macrofossils), Vaughn, Cole, and Caudri (forams). . REPOSITORY: Unknown.

Primary reference: R. M. Stainforth. 1948. Description, correlation, and paleoecology of Tertiary Cipero Marl, Trinidad, BWI. Bulletin of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists 32(7):1292-1330 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 93365: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 15.01.2010

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