PBDB Collection

Station 9530 (Pliocene of Haiti)

Also known as K 31 F

Where: Haiti (18.3° N, 72.5° W: paleocoordinates 18.3° N, 72.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Pliocene (5.3 - 2.6 Ma)

• Beds resting unconformably on upper Eocene limestone, although in some places they have the same strike and dip as the upper Eocene rocks. At the collecting locality the Pliocene beds are folded.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; poorly lithified, shelly/skeletal, gray, yellow, sandy marl and lithified conglomerate

• No precise environmental information reported in text.

• Consist of conglomerate and marl. The conglomerate is firmly consoldiated, except certain very coarse beds, and conatins pebbles and cobbles of different kinds of limestone, which have a maximum diameter of half a meter. Interbedded with the conglomerate are beds of grey and yellow marl containing sandy and clayey layers. Some of the beds of marl carry perfectly preserved fossils.

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: quarrying,

• Collected by W.S. Burbank, November 16, 1920.

Primary reference: W. P. Woodring, J. S. Brown, and W.S. Burbank. 1924. Geology of the Republic of Haiti. 1-631 [A. Miller/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 60898: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 27.05.2006, edited by Wolfgang Kiessling

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Taxonomic list

• Limited list of Mollusca. Other faunal groups (forams, corals, echinoderms) listed in text if present. Nomenclature antiquated (but should be precise as identified by W.P. Woodring and S.T. Stanton). Identifications of corals by T.W. Vaughan, Echinoderms by R.T. Jackson, and forams by W.P. Woodring.

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Gastropoda
Cerithioidea - Turritellidae	Turritella cf. submortoni Turritella cf. submortoni turret shell
Sorbeoconcha - Cassidae	Sconsia cf. laevigata Sconsia cf. laevigata Guppy 1850 snail
Neogastropoda - Muricidae	"Murex cf. domingensis" = Chicoreus (Siratus) domingensis "Murex cf. domingensis" = Chicoreus (Siratus) domingensis Sowerby 1850 murex snail
Neogastropoda - Olividae	Oliva cf. recticularis, "Olivella cf. jaspidea" = Jaspidella jaspidea Oliva cf. recticularis olive snail "Olivella cf. jaspidea" = Jaspidella jaspidea Gmelin 1791 olive snail
Neogastropoda - Fasciolariidae	Fusinus cf. ulcimus Fusinus cf. ulcimus snail Subspecies: F. ulcimus rushii
Neogastropoda - Buccinidae	"Phos cf. moorei" = Antillophos (Antillophos) moorei, Colubraria sp. "Phos cf. moorei" = Antillophos (Antillophos) moorei Guppy 1866 true whelk Colubraria sp. Schumacher 1817 true whelk
Heterostropha - Architectonicidae	Torinia cf. cylindrica Torinia cf. cylindrica snail
Trochoidea - Trochidae	Calliostoma cf. zonamesta Calliostoma cf. zonamesta top snail
Trochoidea - Turbinidae	"Astraea cf. caelata" = Lithopoma caelatum "Astraea cf. caelata" = Lithopoma caelatum Gmelin 1791 snail
Bivalvia
Cardiida - Cardiidae	"Cardium (Fragum) medium" = Americardia media "Cardium (Fragum) medium" = Americardia media Linnaeaus 1758 cockle
Pectinida - Pectinoidae	"Chlamys (Aequipecten) cf. uselmae" = Argopecten uselmae "Chlamys (Aequipecten) cf. uselmae" = Argopecten uselmae Pilsbry and Johnson 1917 calico scallop
Arcida - Glycymerididae	"Glycymeris cf. pennacea" = Glycymeris decussata "Glycymeris cf. pennacea" = Glycymeris decussata Linnaeus 1758 clam
Anthozoa
Scleractinia - Acroporidae	Acropora cervicornis Acropora cervicornis Lamarck 1816 stony coral