Vista Bella Estate (Rutsch locality 25) (Paleocene of Trinidad and Tobago)

Where: San Fernando, Trinidad and Tobago (10.3° N, 61.5° W: paleocoordinates 7.4° N, 48.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Soldado Formation, Thanetian (59.2 - 56.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified lithology not reported

• From the Soldado formation occurring in blocks in the basal conglomerate of the Mount Moriah formation.

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: Natural History Museum, Basel

Primary reference: A. K. Miller and M. L. Thompson. 1937. Beiträge zur Kenntnis tropisch-americkanischer Tertiärmollusken. VI. Some Tertiary nautiloids from Venezuela and Trinidad. Ecologae Geologicae Helvetiae 30(1):59-73 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 168382: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Kristina Okamoto on 20.04.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Nautilida - Hercoglossidae
Hercoglossa harrisi Miller and Thompson 1937 nautiloid