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 60646: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 19.05.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Epitonium (Epitonium) aff. foliaceicostatum wentletrap | |
Turritella (Broderiptella) bifastigata Nelson 1870 turret shell Subspecies: T. (B.) bifastigata cartagenensis
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Cerithium harrisi cerith snail | |
Ithycythara sp. Woodring 1928 snail | |
Olivella (Minioliva) fundarugata olive snail | |
"Natica (Naticarius) aff. canrena" = Naticarius canrena
"Natica (Naticarius) aff. canrena" = Naticarius canrena Linnaeus 1758 moon snail | |
Cylichnella sp. Gabb 1873 snail | |
Scaphopoda | |
Dentalium (Dentalium) divulgatum tusk shell | |
Bivalvia | |
Anomia simplex d'Orbigny 1845 jingle | |
Noetia (Eontia) centrota Guppy 1867 clam
Noetia (Noetia) sheldoniana Maury 1912 clam | |
Anadara (Cunearca) brasiliana Lamarck 1819 ark
Lunarca billingsiana Maury 1912 ark | |
Brachidontes (Brachidontes) sp. Swainson 1840 mussel | |
Martesia striata Linnaeus 1758 clam | |
Caryocorbula (Caryocorbula) sp. Gardner 1926 clam | |
Abra cf. aequalis Say 1822 abra | |
Donax striatus Linnaeus 1767 clam | |
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Chione (Nioche) veatchiana, Dosinia (Dosinia) sp., "Chione (Lirophora) sanctidavidis" = Lirophora, Pitar (Lamelliconcha) circinatus
Chione (Nioche) veatchiana Maury 1912 venus clam
Dosinia (Dosinia) sp. Scopoli 1777 venus clam
"Chione (Lirophora) sanctidavidis" = Lirophora venus clam
Pitar (Lamelliconcha) circinatus venus clam | |
"Nuculana (Saccella) ludificans" = Saccella
"Nuculana (Saccella) ludificans" = Saccella pointed nut clam |