Mud Plant, Forest Reserve (Miocene to of Trinidad and Tobago)

Where: Trinidad and Tobago (10.0° N, 61.0° W: paleocoordinates 9.8° N, 58.6° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Miocene to Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 2.6 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marginal marine; sandstone and claystone

• Sands, lignitic clays, siltstones of loose texture. Porcellinite lenses throughout. Relatively coarse grained.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

Primary reference: E. W. Berry. 1937. A Late Tertiary flora from Trinidad, B. W. I. The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Geology (12)69-79 [E. Kowalski/E. Kowalski/E. Kowalski]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 31336: authorized by Elizabeth Kowalski, entered by Elizabeth Kowalski on 07.05.2003

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Taxonomic list

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unclassified
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Misanteca dubiosa
Angiospermae
 Sapindales - Meliaceae
Trichilia prebakeri n. sp.
Trichilia prebakeri n. sp. mahogany
 Malpighiales - Clusiaceae
Calophyllum calabaformis
 Fabales - Fabaceae
Cassia ordinaria, Leguminosites browneaformis n. sp.
 Rosales - Mimosaceae
Pithecolobium pseudotrapezifolium, Mimosites trinidadensis n. sp.
Rondeletia
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Rondeletia goldmani