Where: Fiji (17.7° S, 178.8° W: paleocoordinates 17.7° S, 178.8° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Miocene (23.0 - 5.3 Ma)
• Only information given is "Miocene"
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by H.S. Ladd, J.E. Hoffmeister; 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 186818: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 04.07.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata | |