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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Ulvophyceae | |
Halimeda sp. Lamouroux 1812 | |
Florideophyceae | |
"Lithothamnium sp." = Lithothamnion
"Lithothamnium sp." = Lithothamnion Heydrich 1897 | |
Gastropoda | |
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Hemitoma (Montfortia) "sp. A"1, Hemitoma (Montfortia) bikiniensis1, Emarginula (Subzeidora) "sp. B"1, Emarginula (Emarginula) bicancellata1
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Euchelus (Euchelus) cf. quadricarinatus1, Euchelus (Herpetopoma) instrictus1, Euchelus (Vaceuchelus) "sp. A"1
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"Amphithalmus (Cerostraca) jeffcoati" = Pusillina (Haurakia) jeffcoati1, Rissoina (Rissolina) turricula1, Rissoina (Rissoina) ekkanana1
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Polyplacophora | |
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Bivalvia | |
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Mytilus sp. Linnaeus 1758 mussel | |
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Cardium sp. Linnaeus 1758 cockle | |
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Anthozoa | |
Tubipora sp. Linnaeus 1758 |