Where: Fiji (18.1° S, 178.4° E: paleocoordinates 20.1° S, 178.2° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Suva Marl Formation, Zanclean (5.3 - 3.6 Ma)
• "Miocene (Suva Marl)" - Suva Marl early Pliocene in age according to Stratford & Rodda (2000).
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: poorly lithified marl
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by A. Strasfogel; reposited in the USNM
Primary reference: G. A. Cooper. 1978. Tertiary and Quaternary brachiopods from the southwest Pacific. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 38:1-23 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 186819: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 05.07.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata | |
Dallina "sp. 1", "Dicrosia fijiensis" = Nipponithyris fijiensis
Dallina "sp. 1" Beecher 1893
"Dicrosia fijiensis" = Nipponithyris fijiensis Elliott 1960 | |
Terebratulina "sp. 1" d'Orbigny 1847 | |