Station 9520 (Pleistocene of Haiti)

Also known as W 103 F

Where: Haiti (18.5° N, 73.2° W: paleocoordinates 18.5° N, 73.1° 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.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified, fine-grained, shelly/skeletal, brown sandstone

• No precise environmental information reported in text.
• Fine-grained soft brown sand containing shells of molluscs.

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: quarrying,

• Collected by W.P. Woodring, November 18, 1920

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 60883: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 26.05.2006

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.
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Siderastreidae
Siderastrea radians Pallas 1766 stony coral
Gastropoda
 Trochoidea - Phasianellidae
"Phasianella affinis" = Eulithidium affine
"Phasianella affinis" = Eulithidium affine Adams 1850 snail
 Cerithioidea - Cerithiidae
"Cerithium caudatum" = Cerithium atratum
"Cerithium caudatum" = Cerithium atratum Born 1778 cerith snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Strombidae
"Strombus pugilus" = Strombus pugilis
"Strombus pugilus" = Strombus pugilis Linnaeus 1758 conch
 Opisthobranchia - Bullidae
"Bullaria ? striata" = Bulla striata
"Bullaria ? striata" = Bulla striata Bruguiére 1792 snail
Bivalvia
 Arcida - Arcidae
"Scapharca deshayesi" = Anadara (Larkinia) notabilis
"Scapharca deshayesi" = Anadara (Larkinia) notabilis Röding 1798 ark
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
"Chlamys (Plagioctenium) cf. gibbus" = Argopecten gibbus
"Chlamys (Plagioctenium) cf. gibbus" = Argopecten gibbus Linnaeus 1758 calico scallop
 Lucinida - Lucinidae
Lucina sp., "Phacoides (Parvilucina) cf. lintea" = Lucinisca nassula
Lucina sp. Bruguière 1797 clam
"Phacoides (Parvilucina) cf. lintea" = Lucinisca nassula Conrad 1846 clam
 Cardiida - Chamidae
Chama ? macerophylla Gmelin 1791 jewel box
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
Protocardia sp. Beyrich 1845 cockle
 Life -
"Tellina (Eurytellina) georgiana" = Eurytellina nitens, "Strigilla rombergii" = Strigilla carnaria
"Tellina (Eurytellina) georgiana" = Eurytellina nitens Adams 1845
"Strigilla rombergii" = Strigilla carnaria Linnaeus 1758