Where: Trinidad and Tobago (10.2° N, 61.6° W: paleocoordinates 10.2° N, 60.9° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Courbaril Member (Morne l'Enfer Formation), Early/Lower Pliocene (5.3 - 3.6 Ma)
• Collection is from the Courbaril Sand and Clay Member of the Upper Morne l'Enfer Formation. The Courbaril fauna is considered to be of early Pliocene age and is probably slightly older than the Matura fauna.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shoreface; poorly lithified sandstone and claystone
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the PRI, USNM
Collection methods: quarrying,
• All material descibed in this report is reposited in the Naturhistorisches Mueum, Basel, or the USNM. Additional material collection from this unit is found at PRI.
Primary reference: P. Jung. 1969. Miocene and Pliocene mollusks from Trinidad. Bulletins of American Paleontology 55(247):293-697 [A. Miller/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 60649: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 19.05.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Pandora sp. Bruguière 1797 clam | |
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Pitar (Lamelliconcha) cicinatus, "Chione (Lirophora) sanctidavidis" = Lirophora
"Chione (Lirophora) sanctidavidis" = Lirophora venus clam | |
Semele proficua Pulteney 1799 clam
Abra cf. aequalis Say 1822 abra | |
"Moerella (Moerella) elinguis" = Tellina (Moerella), "? Eurytellina oligoscissulata" = Tellina (Eurytellina), Eurytellina punicea
"Moerella (Moerella) elinguis" = Tellina (Moerella) tellin clam
"? Eurytellina oligoscissulata" = Tellina (Eurytellina) tellin clam
Eurytellina punicea Born 1778 tellin clam | |
"Carditamera (Bryssomera) aff. affinis" = Carditamera affinis
"Carditamera (Bryssomera) aff. affinis" = Carditamera affinis Sowerby 1823 clam | |
Anomia simplex d'Orbigny 1845 jingle | |
Noetia (Eontia) centrota Guppy 1867 clam | |
Lunarca billingsiana Maury 1912 ark | |
Scaphopoda | |
Dentalium (Dentalium) divulgatum tusk shell | |
Gastropoda | |
"Natica (Naticarius) aff. canrena" = Naticarius canrena
"Natica (Naticarius) aff. canrena" = Naticarius canrena Linnaeus 1758 moon snail | |
"Bullata maturensis" = Closia (Bullata)
"Bullata maturensis" = Closia (Bullata) volute | |
Prunum (Prunum) dallianum Maury 1912 margin shell | |
"Cymia brightoniana" = Cymia (Cymia) brightoniana, Thais (Stramonita) cf. haemostoma, Chicoreus (Triplex) cornurectus1, Risomurex galbensis
"Cymia brightoniana" = Cymia (Cymia) brightoniana Maury 1925 murex snail
Thais (Stramonita) cf. haemostoma Linnaeus 1767 murex snail
Risomurex galbensis murex snail | |
Melongena melongena Linnaeus 1758 snail | |
Turritella (Broderiptella) aff. mimetes Brown and Pilsbry 1911 turret shell
Turritella (Broderiptella) bifastigata Nelson 1870 turret shell Subspecies: T. (B.) bifastigata caratagenensis
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Cerithium harrisi cerith snail | |
Diodora cavenensis snail |