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 60655: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 19.05.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Scaphopoda | |
Dentalium (Dentalium) divulgatum tusk shell | |
Bivalvia | |
"Nuculana (Saccella) ludificans" = Saccella, "Adrana perprotracta" = Adrana newcombi
"Nuculana (Saccella) ludificans" = Saccella pointed nut clam
"Adrana perprotracta" = Adrana newcombi Angas 1878 pointed nut clam | |
Brachidontes (Brachidontes) sp. Swainson 1840 mussel | |
Noetia (Eontia) centrota Guppy 1867 clam | |
Lunarca billingsiana Maury 1912 ark | |
Ostrea sp. Linnaeus 1758 oyster | |
Anomia simplex d'Orbigny 1845 jingle | |
"Aequipecten (Plagioctenium) sp." = Argopecten
"Aequipecten (Plagioctenium) sp." = Argopecten Monterosato 1889 calico scallop | |
Caryocorbula (Caryocorbula) sp. Gardner 1926 clam | |
Martesia striata Linnaeus 1758 clam
Pholas sp. Linnaeus 1758 clam | |
Eurytellina punicea Born 1778 tellin clam
Temnoconcha aff. brasiliana tellin clam | |
Donax striatus Linnaeus 1767 clam | |
Chione (Nioche) veatchiana, "Chione (Lirophora) sanctidavidis" = Lirophora, Dosinia (Dosinia) sp., Pitar (Lamelliconcha) circinatus
Chione (Nioche) veatchiana Maury 1912 venus clam
"Chione (Lirophora) sanctidavidis" = Lirophora venus clam
Dosinia (Dosinia) sp. Scopoli 1777 venus clam
Pitar (Lamelliconcha) circinatus venus clam | |
Mulinia sp. Gray 1837 clam | |
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Gastropoda | |
Triphora guppyi snail | |
"Teinosoma (Aepystoma) caroniense" = Teinostoma (Aepystoma)
"Teinosoma (Aepystoma) caroniense" = Teinostoma (Aepystoma) snail | |
"Natica (Naticarius) aff. canrena" = Naticarius canrena
"Natica (Naticarius) aff. canrena" = Naticarius canrena Linnaeus 1758 moon snail | |
Strioterebrum aff. laevifasciola Maury 1917 auger snail | |
Olivella (Minioliva) fundarugata olive snail | |
Risomurex galbensis, "Cymia brightoniana" = Cymia (Cymia) brightoniana
Risomurex galbensis murex snail
"Cymia brightoniana" = Cymia (Cymia) brightoniana Maury 1925 murex snail | |
Melongena melongena Linnaeus 1758 snail | |
Nassarius galbanus snail | |
"Anachis (Costoanachis) obesa" = Parvanachis obesa, Anachis (Anachis) asphaltoda
"Anachis (Costoanachis) obesa" = Parvanachis obesa Adams 1845 snail | |
Serpulorbis decussatus Gmelin 1791 worm shell | |
Eulima "sp. A" Risso 1826 snail | |
Calyptraea centralis Conrad 1841 slipper shell | |
Cerithium harrisi cerith snail | |
"Calliostoma olssoni" = Calliostoma (Elmerlinia) olssoni
"Calliostoma olssoni" = Calliostoma (Elmerlinia) olssoni Maury 1925 top snail | |
"Neritina (Vitta) cf. virginia" = Neritina virginea
"Neritina (Vitta) cf. virginia" = Neritina virginea Linnaeus 1758 snail |