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: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From an undifferentiated lithostratigraphic unit. AGE: Holocene, on the basis of stratigraphic position. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: A composite from several beds within the section of drill core of 0-100 ft.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: unlithified, coarse-grained, shelly/skeletal mixed carbonate-siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

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 43334: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 12.08.2004

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