Also known as W 2 F
Where: Haiti (19.0° N, 72.5° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 19.1° N, 72.3° W (Wright 2013)
• 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 St Marc Bay, relatively wide terraces veeered with reef rock or coralliferous limestone cover the promontories north and south of the bay.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; poorly lithified, shelly/skeletal limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: quarrying,
• Collected by W.P. Woodring, September 19, 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 60886: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 26.05.2006
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
"Maeandra strigosa" = Pseudodiploria strigosa
"Maeandra strigosa" = Pseudodiploria strigosa Dana 1846 stony coral | |
Orbicella annularis Ellis and Solander 1876 stony coral | |
Siderastrea radians Pallas 1766 stony coral
Siderastrea siderea Ellis and Solander 1786 stony coral | |
Porites porites Pallas 1766 stony coral | |
Agaricia agaricites Linnaeus 1758 stony coral | |
Hydrozoa | |
Millepora alcicornis Linnaeus 1758 fire coral | |
Bivalvia | |
"Arca umbonata" = Lamarcka imbricata
"Arca umbonata" = Lamarcka imbricata Bruguière 1789 clam | |
Tellina sp. Linnaeus 1758 tellin clam | |
Codakia (Codakia) ? orbicularis, "Phacoides (Here) pennsylvanica" = Lucina pensylvanica
Codakia (Codakia) ? orbicularis Linnaeus 1758 clam
"Phacoides (Here) pennsylvanica" = Lucina pensylvanica Linnaeus 1758 clam | |
Gastropoda | |
"Cittarium picum" = Cittarium pica
"Cittarium picum" = Cittarium pica Linnaeus 1758 top snail | |
"Strombus gigas" = Lobatus gigas
"Strombus gigas" = Lobatus gigas Linnaeus 1758 true conch | |
Columbella mercatoria Linnaeus 1758 snail | |
Oliva reticularis Lamarck 1811 olive snail | |
"Cypraea exanthema" = Macrocypraea zebra
"Cypraea exanthema" = Macrocypraea zebra Linnaeus 1758 cowry | |
"Polinices lactea" = Polinices lacteus
"Polinices lactea" = Polinices lacteus Guilding 1834 moon snail |