Where: Jamaica (17.9° N, 76.3° W: paleocoordinates 17.9° N, 76.0° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Bowden Formation (Coastal Group), Late/Upper Pliocene (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From Pickerill et al. (1998). Bowden Formation is the uppermost stratigraphic unit of the Lower Coastal Group. The top of the formation is defined by the nonconformably overlying, early Pleistocene Old Pera Beds of the Upper Coastal Group. AGE: Late Pliocene. The unit was formely regarded as Miocene in age, even Oligocene, but foraminiferal and planktic gastropod biostratigraphy points to a late Pliocene age. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Unknown position within formation.
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; unlithified, pebbly, shelly/skeletal, conglomeratic gravel
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: original aragonite, original calcite
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
• COLLECTOR: Multiple collectors. REPOSITORY: Multiple repositories.
Primary reference: P. Jung. 1994. Neogene Paleontology in the Northern Dominican Republic 15. The Genera Columbella, Eurypyrene, Parametaria, Conella, Nitidella, and Metulella (Gastropoda: Columbellidae). Bulletins of American Paleontology 106(344):1-45 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 131915: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 02.08.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Poirieria (Flexopteron) collata4, "Murex (Haustellum) messorius" = Vokesimurex messorius4, "Typhis (Talityphis) expansus" = Typhina expansa4
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Columbella submercatoria Olsson 1922 snail
Columbella platynema Woodring 1928 snail
Eurypyrene eurynotum Woodring 1928 snail | |
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Cymatium femorale2, Monoplex krebsii2, Monoplex comptus2, Monoplex parthenopeus2, Turritriton labiosus2
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Bivalvia | |
Corbula (Caryocorbula) sericea1, "Varicorbula heterogena" = Corbula (Varicorbula)1, "Corbula (Bothrocorbula) vimnea" = Bothrocorbula1
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