Station 110C [Ndalithoni Limestone]: Pliocene, Fiji

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Basiliolidae
F category
Bivalvia - Mytilida - Mytilidae
A category
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Spondylidae
A category
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
A category
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Limidae
F category
Gastropoda - Trochidae
Ladd 1966
Ladd 1966
F category
Gastropoda - Turbinidae
Turbo (Turbo) petholatus (Linnaeus 1758)
Ladd 1966
Gastropoda - Hipponicidae
Hipponix sp. (Defrance 1819)
R category
Ladd 1972
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Conidae
R category
Ladd 1982
Gastropoda - Cypraeidae
R category
R category
F category
Ladd 1977
F category
Gastropoda - Ampullinidae
F category
Gastropoda - Neritidae
R category
Ladd 1966
Gastropoda - Cycloneritida - Neritopsidae
Neritopsis radula (Linnaeus 1758)
R category
Ladd 1966
Gastropoda - Patellida - Nacellidae
F category
Ladd 1966
Malacostraca - Decapoda - Diogenidae
R category
Malacostraca - Decapoda - Raninidae
F category
Malacostraca - Decapoda - Majidae
R category
Malacostraca - Decapoda - Epialtidae
R category
R category
Malacostraca - Decapoda - Panopeidae
R category
Malacostraca - Decapoda - Xanthidae
A category
F category
R category
R category
R category
R category
F category
R category
Malacostraca - Decapoda - Dairidae
A category
Malacostraca - Decapoda - Trichopeltariidae
R category
Malacostraca - Decapoda - Carcinidae
R category
Malacostraca - Decapoda - Portunidae
R category
A category
R category
R category
Malacostraca - Decapoda - Menippidae
R category
R category
Malacostraca - Decapoda
F category
Malacostraca - Decapoda - Dromiidae
? Dromia sp. Weber 1795
R category
unclassified
R category
Echinoidea - Cidaroida - Cidaridae
Eucidaris metularia (Lamarck 1816)
R category
A category
Echinoidea - Camarodonta - Echinometridae
A category
F category
Echinoidea - Clypeasteroida - Clypeasteridae
R category
Echinoidea - Spatangoida - Brissidae
A category
Echinoidea - Spatangoida - Schizasteridae
F category
see common names

Geography
Country:Fiji
Coordinates: 17.2° South, 179.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Altitude:15 feet
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Neogene Epoch: Pliocene
10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 6
Key time interval: Pliocene
Age range of interval: 5.333 - 2.58 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Ndalithoni Limestone
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From Ndalithoni Limestone, which overlies the Koro Mbasanga volcanics (?Late Miocene) and is overlain by Recent alluvium and beach sands. AGE: Pliocene according to Ladd (1945), and stage "h" of Van der Vlerk. Assigned to a Pliocene age, although Ladd's assignment is founded on lyelian percentages. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Unknown position within unit.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:tuffaceous,shelly/skeletal poorly lithified "limestone"
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Tuffaceous limestone. Otherwise unknown lithology, though from limestone unit. LITHIFICATION: Presumed poorly lithified, given young age and extreme diversity relative to other underlying limestone units.
Environment:carbonate indet.
Geology comments: ENVIRONMENT: Unknown environment, though presumably shallow water carbonate.
Taphonomy
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Collection method comments: COLLECTOR: H.S. Ladd and E.J. Hoffmeister, presumably with others. REPOSITORY: Unknown, possibly the Bernice P. Bishop Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii, or the USNM.
Taxonomic list comments:COMPLETENESS: Exhaustive for echinoidea, gastropoda, bivalvia, bryozoa, brachiopoda, and decapoda. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication, although somewhat antiquated. Regular use of subgenera and species level identifications. Nomenclature vetted by A. Hendy (1/2007).
Metadata
Database number:68181
Authorizer:A. Hendy Enterer:A. Hendy
Modifier:A. Hendy Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2007-01-07 10:59:48 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:authorizer only Released:2008-01-07 10:59:48
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
19610. H. S. Ladd and J. E. Hoffmeister. 1945. Geology of Lau, Fiji. Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin 181 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]

Secondary references:

26223 H. S. Ladd. 1966. Chitons and Gastropods (Haliotidae through Adeorbidae) from Western Pacific Islands. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 531:1-98 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/J. Millet]
11409 H. S. Ladd. 1972. Cenozoic fossil mollusks from Western Pacific Islands; Gastropods (Turritellidae through Strombidae). United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 532:1-79 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]
11410 H. S. Ladd. 1977. Cenozoic fossil mollusks from Western Pacific Islands; Gastropods (Eratoidae through Harpidae). United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 533:1-84 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/J. Millet]
26328 H. S. Ladd. 1982. Cenozoic fossil mollusks from Western Pacific Islands; Gastropods (Volutidae through Terebridae). United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 1171:1-100 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]