Where: Marshall Islands (11.7° N, 162.2° E: paleocoordinates 11.0° N, 163.8° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Early/Lower Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.8 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From an undifferentiated lithostratigraphic unit. AGE: Early Pleistocene, on the basis of stratigraphic position. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: A composite from several beds within the section of drill core of 200-300 ft.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; poorly lithified, shelly/skeletal, yellow limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression, replaced with calcite
Collected by ONR and USGS in 1952; reposited in the UNSM
Collection methods: core,
• COLLECTOR: Office of Naval Research and USGS, 1952. REPOSITORY: USNM.
Primary reference: H. S. Ladd and S.O. Schlanger. 1960. Drilling operations on Eniwetok Atoll. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 260(Y):863-903 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 43333: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 12.08.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
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Bivalvia | |
Cardium sp. Linnaeus 1758 cockle | |
Mytilus sp. Linnaeus 1758 mussel | |
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Anthozoa | |
Porites sp. Link 1807 stony coral | |
Ulvophyceae | |
Halimeda sp. Lamouroux 1812 |