Station 9844 (Pleistocene of Haiti)

Also known as B 211a F

Where: Haiti (19.8° N, 73.4° W: paleocoordinates 19.8° N, 73.3° 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 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

• No precise environmental information reported in text.
• Coralliferous limestone.

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: quarrying,

• Collected by J.S. Brown, Januray 31, 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 60889: 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.
Foraminifera
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Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Triviidae
Trivia sp. Broderip 1837 snail
Bivalvia
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
"Cardium (Papyridea) cf. spinosum" = Papyridea soleniformis
"Cardium (Papyridea) cf. spinosum" = Papyridea soleniformis Bruguière 1787 cockle
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
"Chlamys (Aequipecten) sp." = Aequipecten
"Chlamys (Aequipecten) sp." = Aequipecten Fischer 1886 scallop
Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Terebratulidae
Liothyrina sp. Oehlert 1887
Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Majidae
Mithrax sp. Latreille 1817 spider crab