San Fernando (Eocene of Trinidad and Tobago)

Where: Trinidad and Tobago (10.3° N, 61.5° W: paleocoordinates 8.4° N, 54.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: San Fernando Formation, Priabonian (38.0 - 33.9 Ma)

• Thought to be Miocene by Guppy (1866) but "probably upper Eocene" according to Rathbun (1919). Confirmed to be upper Eocene on the basis of benthic and planktonic foraminifera by McCabe et al. (1993).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

• Irregular dark-blue limestone, containing numerous fossils generally converted into calcspar or replaced by semiliquid asphalt

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by R.L. Guppy; reposited in the BMNH

Primary reference: M. J. Rathbun. 1919. West Indian Tertiary decapod crustaceans. In T. W. Vaughan (ed.), Contributions to the Geology and Paleontology of the West Indies 157-184 [C. Schweitzer/S. Yost/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 135728: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Samantha Yost on 06.11.2012

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Taxonomic list

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Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Raninidae
"Ranina porifera n. sp." = Lophoranina porifera
"Ranina porifera n. sp." = Lophoranina porifera Woodward 1866 crab