C1263, Queens Road, Viti Levu (Pliocene of Fiji)

Where: Fiji (18.1° S, 177.4° E: paleocoordinates 20.2° S, 177.2° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Cuvu Group, Zanclean (5.3 - 3.6 Ma)

• "Pliocene-Pleistocene (Thuvu Group)" - apparently Cuvu Sedimentary Group, early Pliocene in age according to Stratford & Rodda (2000).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; poorly lithified siliciclastic sediments

• Poorly lithified based on illustrated specimens from this locality

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by P. Rodda; reposited in the USNM

Primary reference: G. A. Cooper. 1978. Tertiary and Quaternary brachiopods from the southwest Pacific. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 38:1-23 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 186812: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 04.07.2017

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Taxonomic list

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Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Basiliolidae
Basiliola roddai
Basiliola roddai Cooper 1978
 Rhynchonellida - Cryptoporidae
Cryptopora sp.
Cryptopora sp. Jeffreys 1869
 Terebratulida - Dyscoliidae
Abyssothyris sp.
 Terebratulida - Terebratulidae
? Dallithyris "sp. 1"
 Terebratulida - Dallinidae
"Dicrosia fijiensis" = Nipponithyris fijiensis, Dallina "sp. 1"
"Dicrosia fijiensis" = Nipponithyris fijiensis Elliott 1960
Dallina "sp. 1" Beecher 1893