Where: Trinidad and Tobago (10.7° N, 61.1° W: paleocoordinates 10.6° N, 60.3° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Matura Member (Talparo Formation), Early/Lower Pliocene (5.3 - 3.6 Ma)
• Collection is from the Matura Sand and Clay Member of the Talparo Formation. The Matura fauna is considered to be of early Pliocene age and is probably slightly younger than the Courbaril fauna. The Matura shell bed has variously been attributed to the Pliocene (Guppy 1864, 1867, 1874; Maury 1925; Kugler 1953; Woodring 1966) or Pleistocene (Kugler 1936).
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shoreface; poorly lithified, shelly/skeletal, brown, argillaceous, sandy mixed carbonate-siliciclastic sediments
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 60412: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 14.05.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Scaphopoda | |
Dentalium (Dentalium) sp. Linnaeus 1758 tusk shell
Dentalium (Graptacme) cf. amaliense tusk shell | |
Bivalvia | |
Nucula (Lamellinucula) baccata nut clam | |
"Nuculana (Saccella) perlepida" = Saccella
"Nuculana (Saccella) perlepida" = Saccella pointed nut clam | |
"Barbatia (? Fugleria) millifila" = Fugleria, "Arca (Arca) imbricata" = Lamarcka imbricata, "Barbatia (Acar) domingensis" = Acar domingensis, "Arca (Arca) zebra" = Byssoarca zebra, Lunarca billingsiana
"Arca (Arca) imbricata" = Lamarcka imbricata Bruguière 1789 clam Subspecies: Arca (A.) imbricata imbricata
"Barbatia (Acar) domingensis" = Acar domingensis Lamarck 1819 miniature ark
Lunarca billingsiana Maury 1912 ark | |
Noetia (Eontia) centrota Guppy 1867 clam
Arcopsis adamsi Dall 1886 clam | |
"Aequipecten (Plagioctenium) cf. gibbus" = Argopecten gibbus, "Aequipecten (Plagioctenium) demiurgus" = Argopecten demiurgus, "Aequipecten (Plagioctenium) rutamensis" = Argopecten
"Aequipecten (Plagioctenium) cf. gibbus" = Argopecten gibbus Linnaeus 1758 calico scallop
"Aequipecten (Plagioctenium) demiurgus" = Argopecten demiurgus Dall 1898 calico scallop
"Aequipecten (Plagioctenium) rutamensis" = Argopecten calico scallop | |
Plicatula gibbosa Lamarck 1801 scallop | |
Anomia simplex d'Orbigny 1845 jingle | |
Brachidontes (Brachidontes) sp. Swainson 1840 mussel | |
Crassinella martinicensis d'Orbigny 1853 clam | |
Caryocorbula (Caryocorbula) sp., "Notocorbula aff. disparilis" = Corbula (Notocorbula), Juliacorbula aequivalvis
Caryocorbula (Caryocorbula) sp. Gardner 1926 clam
"Notocorbula aff. disparilis" = Corbula (Notocorbula) clam
Juliacorbula aequivalvis Philippi 1836 clam | |
"Trachycardium (Dallocardia) sanctidavidis" = Dallocardia
"Trachycardium (Dallocardia) sanctidavidis" = Dallocardia cockle | |
Strigilla (Pisostrigilla) pisiformis Linnaeus 1758 tellin clam
Strigilla (Strigilla) carnaria Linnaeus 1758 tellin clam | |
Donax fabagelloides clam | |
Pitar (Lamelliconcha) circinatus, Tivela (Tivela) austeniana, "Chione (Chione) cancellata" = Chione cancellata, Chione (Nioche) veatchiana, Anomalocardia brasiliana
Pitar (Lamelliconcha) circinatus venus clam
Tivela (Tivela) austeniana Maury 1912 venus clam
"Chione (Chione) cancellata" = Chione cancellata Linnaeus 1767 venus clam
Chione (Nioche) veatchiana Maury 1912 venus clam
Anomalocardia brasiliana Gmelin 1792 venus clam | |
Chama sp. Linnaeus 1758 jewel box
Pseudochama aff. caloosana jewel box | |
"Mactra (Micromactra) cf. maracaibensis" = Mactrotoma, Mulinia sp.
"Mactra (Micromactra) cf. maracaibensis" = Mactrotoma surfclam
Mulinia sp. Gray 1837 clam | |
Gastropoda | |
"Natica (Naticarius) canrena" = Naticarius canrena, Tectonatica pusilla
"Natica (Naticarius) canrena" = Naticarius canrena Linnaeus 1758 moon snail
Tectonatica pusilla Say 1822 moon snail | |
"Bursa (Marsupina) bufo" = Marsupina bufo
"Bursa (Marsupina) bufo" = Marsupina bufo Bruguiére 1792 frog shell | |
"Neosimnia cf. uniplicata" = Simnialena uniplicata
"Neosimnia cf. uniplicata" = Simnialena uniplicata Sowerby 1848 snail | |
"Erato maugeriae" = Archierato maugeriae
"Erato maugeriae" = Archierato maugeriae Gray 1832 snail | |
Cypraea sp. Linnaeus 1758 cowry | |
"Zanassarina sp." = Nassarina (Zanassarina), "Anachis (Costoanachis) obesa" = Parvanachis obesa, "Strombina (Sincola) crassilabrum" = Sincola (Sincola) crassilabrum
"Zanassarina sp." = Nassarina (Zanassarina) Pilsbry and Lowe 1932 snail
"Anachis (Costoanachis) obesa" = Parvanachis obesa Adams 1845 snail
"Strombina (Sincola) crassilabrum" = Sincola (Sincola) crassilabrum Guppy 1874 snail | |
"Persicula (Rabicea) cf. interruptolineata" = Persicula interruptalineata
"Persicula (Rabicea) cf. interruptolineata" = Persicula interruptalineata Megerle von Mühlfeld 1818 snail | |
Serpulorbis decussatus Gmelin 1791 worm shell | |
Cerithiopsis (Cerithiopsis) sp. Hanley 1849 snail | |
Triphora guppyi snail | |
Trochita radians Lamarck 1816 slipper shell
"Crucibulum (Crucibulum) subsutum" = Crucibulum subsutum Guppy 1867 slipper shell
Calyptraea centralis Conrad 1841 slipper shell | |
Crassispira (Crassispira) ritanida Mansfield 1925 snail | |
Vermicularia spirata Philippi 1836 turret shell
Vermicularia trilineata Guppy 1864 turret shell
Turritella (Broderiptella) aff. pllanigyrata turret shell | |
"Architectonica (Architectonica) nobilis" = Architectonica nobilis
"Architectonica (Architectonica) nobilis" = Architectonica nobilis Röding 1798 sundial Subspecies: A. (A.) nobilis nobilis
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Diodora cavenensis snail | |
"Calliostoma decipiens" = Calliostoma (Calliostoma) decipiens, "Calliostoma olssoni" = Calliostoma (Elmerlinia) olssoni, Calliostoma plicomphalus
"Calliostoma decipiens" = Calliostoma (Calliostoma) decipiens Guppy 1867 top snail
"Calliostoma olssoni" = Calliostoma (Elmerlinia) olssoni Maury 1925 top snail
Calliostoma plicomphalus Guppy 1867 top snail |