F-1 (100-200 ft), Eniwetok Atol (Pleistocene of Marshall Islands)

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: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From an undifferentiated lithostratigraphic unit. AGE: Late Pleistocene, on the basis of stratigraphic position. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: A composite from several beds within the section of drill core of 100-200 ft.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: unlithified, shelly/skeletal sandstone

• ENVIRONMENT: Carbonate facies. Shallow water. No paleoenvironmental data presented.
• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Sand, uncemented; made up largely of beach-type foraminifera, mixed with fragments of larger forms, including corals, echinoids, crustacean, and segments of calcareous algae. LITHIFICATION: Unlithified, on the basis facies description and figured specimens.

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Collected by ONR and USGS in 1952; reposited in the USNM

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 43335: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 12.08.2004

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• COEVERAGE: Representative, but not exhaustive of bivalvia and gastropoda. NOMENCLATURE: Mixture of some slightly antiquated and broad identifications and more modern nomenclature, subgenus- and species-level identifications from an authoritative publication. IDENTIFIER: H. S. Ladd.
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Gastropoda
 Trochoidea - Trochidae
Trochus (Trochus) histrio1
Trochus (Trochus) histrio1 Reeve 1848 top snail
 Neogastropoda - Terebridae
Terebra (Decorihastula) affinis2
Terebra (Decorihastula) affinis2 Gray 1834 auger snail
Bivalvia
 Cardiida - Chamidae
Chama sp.
Chama sp. Linnaeus 1758 jewel box
Ulvophyceae
 Bryopsidales - Halimedaceae
Halimeda sp.
Halimeda sp. Lamouroux 1812
1Ladd 1966; 2Ladd 1977