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 60413: 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 | |
Bivalvia | |
"Nuculana (Saccella) perlepida" = Saccella
"Nuculana (Saccella) perlepida" = Saccella pointed nut clam | |
Barbatia (Barbatia) candida, "Barbatia (Acar) domingensis" = Acar domingensis, "Arca (Arca) zebra" = Byssoarca zebra
Barbatia (Barbatia) candida Helbling 1779 clam
"Barbatia (Acar) domingensis" = Acar domingensis Lamarck 1819 miniature ark | |
Noetia (Eontia) centrota Guppy 1867 clam | |
Brachidontes (Brachidontes) sp. Swainson 1840 mussel
Modiolus carchedonius 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 | |
Donax fabagelloides clam | |
Tivela (Tivela) austeniana Maury 1912 venus clam
Chione (Nioche) veatchiana Maury 1912 venus clam | |
Gastropoda | |
"Anachis (Costoanachis) obesa" = Parvanachis obesa
"Anachis (Costoanachis) obesa" = Parvanachis obesa Adams 1845 snail | |
"Persicula (Rabicea) cf. interruptolineata" = Persicula interruptalineata
"Persicula (Rabicea) cf. interruptolineata" = Persicula interruptalineata Megerle von Mühlfeld 1818 snail | |
"Seila cf. adamsi" = Seila adamsii
"Seila cf. adamsi" = Seila adamsii Lea 1845 snail | |
Triphora guppyi snail | |
Crucibulum (Crucibulum) piliferum Guppy 1867 slipper shell | |
Niso sp. Risso 1826 snail
Eulima clavata snail | |
Acteocina canaliculata Say 1826 barrel-bubble | |
Turbonilla "sp. A" Risso 1826 snail | |
"Calliostoma olssoni" = Calliostoma (Elmerlinia) olssoni
"Calliostoma olssoni" = Calliostoma (Elmerlinia) olssoni Maury 1925 top snail |