Where: Marshall Islands (11.6° N, 165.4° E: paleocoordinates 8.6° N, 171.6° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From an undifferentiated lithostratigraphic unit. AGE: Late Miocene, on the basis of foraminiferal biostratigraphy. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: A composite from several beds within the section of drill core of 900-1000 ft.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; unlithified, shelly/skeletal, brown mixed carbonate-siliciclastic sediments

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Preservation: original aragonite

Collected by JTF in 1947; reposited in the USNM

Collection methods: core,

• COLLECTOR: Operation Crossroads, Joint Task Force One, 1947. REPOSITORY: USNM.

Primary reference: K. O. Emery, J. I. Tracey, and H.S. Ladd. 1954. Geology of Bikini and nearby atolls: Part 1, Geology. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 260(A):1-265 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/R. McClees-Funinan]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 43339: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 12.08.2004

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