Station 9813 (Eocene of Haiti)

Also known as B 163 F

Where: Haiti (19.5° N, 72.7° W: paleocoordinates 18.2° N, 72.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Eocene (37.2 - 33.9 Ma)

• Unnamed lithostratigraphic unit. Contact with Plaisance limestone is unconformable, marked by a fault. The Late Eocene limestone also rests unconformably on the floor of igneus and other Mesozoic rocks. Thickness ranges between several hundred meters and 1000-2000 meters. Foraminifera clearly indicate a Late Eocene age. Molluscan affinities with other West Indian, Central and South American faunas also suggest a Late Eocene age. Correlated with the St Bartholomew Limestone of St Bartholomew.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, white, yellow, sandy limestone

• No precise environmental information reported in text. Sharply folded.
• Almost entirely limestone, but at some localities beds of shalke, soft sandstone, and even coarse conglomerate are interbedded with the limestone, particularly near its base. Limestone is white to yellow and has a porous chalky or sandy appearance, although unweathered specimens are rather hard.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression

Collection methods: quarrying,

• Collected by J.S. Brown, January 12, 1921.

Primary reference: W. P. Woodring, J. S. Brown, and W.S. Burbank. 1924. Geology of the Republic of Haiti. 1-631 [A. Miller/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 60601: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 18.05.2006

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Taxonomic list

• Small list of Mollusca, probably not exhaustive, other faunal groups (forams, corals, echinoderms) listed in text if present. Nomenclature antiquated (but should be precise as identified by W.P. Woodring and S.T. Stanton) and often limited to sp. determinations (owing to poor, moldic preservation). Identifications of corals by T.W. Vaughan, Echinoderms by R.T. Jackson, and forams by W.P. Woodring.
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Gastropoda
 Neritoidea - Neritidae
"Neritina cf. grandis" = Velates vokesi
"Neritina cf. grandis" = Velates vokesi Cooke 1946 snail