Station 9473 (Pleistocene of Haiti)

Also known as B 67 F

Where: Haiti (18.3° N, 73.8° W: paleocoordinates 18.3° N, 73.7° 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, November 11, 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 60890: 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.
Gastropoda
 Cerithioidea - Cerithiidae
"Cerithium cf. algicola" = Cerithium eburneum
"Cerithium cf. algicola" = Cerithium eburneum Bruguière 1792 cerith snail
 Opisthobranchia - Bullidae
"Bullaria ? striata" = Bulla striata
"Bullaria ? striata" = Bulla striata Bruguiére 1792 snail
Bivalvia
 Cardiida - Veneridae
Chione cancellata Linnaeus 1767 venus clam
Spelt: Chione cancella
 Cardiida - Tellinidae
Tellina sp. Linnaeus 1758 tellin clam
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
"Chlamys (Plagioctenium) cf. gibbus" = Argopecten gibbus
"Chlamys (Plagioctenium) cf. gibbus" = Argopecten gibbus Linnaeus 1758 calico scallop