Where: Trinidad and Tobago (10.2° N, 61.6° W: paleocoordinates 10.2° N, 60.9° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Courbaril Member (Morne l'Enfer Formation), Early/Lower Pliocene (5.3 - 3.6 Ma)
• Collection is from the Courbaril Sand and Clay Member of the Upper Morne l'Enfer Formation. The Courbaril fauna is considered to be of early Pliocene age and is probably slightly older than the Matura fauna.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shoreface; poorly lithified sandstone and claystone
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the PRI, USNM
Collection methods: quarrying,
• All material descibed in this report is reposited in the Naturhistorisches Mueum, Basel, or the USNM. Additional material collection from this unit is found at PRI.
Primary reference: P. Jung. 1969. Miocene and Pliocene mollusks from Trinidad. Bulletins of American Paleontology 55(247):293-697 [A. Miller/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 60411: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 14.05.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Turritella (Broderiptella) bifastigata Nelson 1870 turret shell Subspecies: T. (B.) bifastigata cartagenensis
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Cerithium harrisi cerith snail | |
"Natica (Naticarius) aff. canrena" = Naticarius canrena
"Natica (Naticarius) aff. canrena" = Naticarius canrena Linnaeus 1758 moon snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Solen (Solena) obliquus Spengler 1794 clam | |
Semele proficua Pulteney 1799 clam
Abra cf. aequalis Say 1822 abra | |
"Eurytellina melajoensis" = Tellina (Eurytellina) tellin clam
Eurytellina punicea Born 1778 tellin clam
Psammotreta galbana tellin clam | |
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Mulinia sp. Gray 1837 clam | |
"Chione (Lirophora) sanctidavidis" = Lirophora
"Chione (Lirophora) sanctidavidis" = Lirophora venus clam | |
"Adrana perprotracta" = Adrana newcombi
"Adrana perprotracta" = Adrana newcombi Angas 1878 pointed nut clam |