Station 9675 (Pleistocene of Haiti)

Also known as W 301b F

Where: Haiti (19.8° N, 72.9° W: paleocoordinates 19.8° N, 72.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)

• Marine deposits are common along the coast where they form narrow fringes, a few places 1 or 2 km wide. The Quaternary deposits everywhere rest on the underlying formations unconformably. The unconformity is angular as well as erosional, even with the Pliocene and Miocene, but at some places where there are no Pliocene deposits the discordance with the Miocene deposits may be slight. At Port de Paix, the bed (station 9765) is 3.6 m thick, comprised of reef rock and overlies poorly consolidated sands (station 9765). The entire section is just 7. 1 m thick.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; unlithified, shelly/skeletal, brown, yellow reef rocks

• No precise environmental information reported in text.
• Reef rock, yellowish-buff, soft, contaiing large heads of Orbicella annularis and other corals.

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: quarrying,

• Collected by W.P. Woodring, February 21, 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 60881: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 26.05.2006, edited by Wolfgang Kiessling and Uta Merkel

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Exhaustive list of Mollusca. 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). Identifications of corals by T.W. Vaughan, Echinoderms by R.T. Jackson, and forams by W.P. Woodring.
unclassified
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Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Montastraeidae
Montastrea cavernosa2 Linne 1767 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Mussidae
"Diploria strigosa" = Pseudodiploria strigosa2 Dana 1846 stony coral
Diploria labyrinthiformis2 Linnaeus 1758 stony coral
Manicina areolata2 Linnaeus 1758 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Meandrinidae
Dichocoenia stokesi1 Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral
Eusmilia fastigiata Pallas 1766 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Merulinidae
"Montastrea annularis" = Orbicella annularis2
"Montastrea annularis" = Orbicella annularis2 Ellis and Solander 1876 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Poritidae
Porites astreoides2 Lamarck 1816 stony coral
Porites furcata Lamarck 1816 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Agariciidae
Agaricia agaricites Linnaeus 1758 stony coral
Includes subspecies: A. agaricities purpurea
 Scleractinia - Acroporidae
Acropora cervicornis1 Lamarck 1816 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Astrocoeniidae
Madracis decactis1 Lyman 1859 stony coral
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostrea sp. Linnaeus 1758 oyster
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
"Spondylus americana" = Spondylus americanus
"Spondylus americana" = Spondylus americanus Hermann 1781 scallop
 Arcida - Glycymerididae
"Glycymeris pennacea" = Glycymeris decussata
"Glycymeris pennacea" = Glycymeris decussata Linnaeus 1758 clam
 Lucinida - Lucinidae
Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Strombidae
"Strombus gigas" = Lobatus gigas
"Strombus gigas" = Lobatus gigas Linnaeus 1758 true conch
 Sorbeoconcha - Cypraeidae
"Cypraea lurida" = Luria lurida
"Cypraea lurida" = Luria lurida Linnaeus 1758 cowry
 Lepetellida - Fissurellidae
"Subemarginula octoradiata" = Hemitoma octoradiata
"Subemarginula octoradiata" = Hemitoma octoradiata Gmelin 1791 snail
Eurytellina nitens
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"Tellina (Eurytellina) georgiana" = Eurytellina nitens
"Tellina (Eurytellina) georgiana" = Eurytellina nitens Adams 1845