Station 9603 (Pleistocene of Haiti)

Also known as W 63 F

Where: Haiti (18.3° N, 72.5° W: paleocoordinates 18.3° N, 72.4° 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: 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 W.P. Woodring, November 1, 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 60891: 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.
Gastropoda
 Trochoidea - Turbinidae
"Astraea caelata" = Lithopoma caelatum
"Astraea caelata" = Lithopoma caelatum Gmelin 1791 snail
 Lepetellida - Fissurellidae
"Fissuridea sp." = Diodora
"Fissuridea sp." = Diodora Gray 1821 snail
 Opisthobranchia - Bullidae
"Bullaria striata" = Bulla striata
"Bullaria striata" = Bulla striata BruguiƩre 1792 snail
Bivalvia
 Cardiida - Tellinidae
"Tellina (Cyclotellina) fausta" = Arcopagia fausta
"Tellina (Cyclotellina) fausta" = Arcopagia fausta Pulteney 1799 tellin clam
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Merulinidae
Orbicella annularis Ellis and Solander 1876 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Mussidae
"Maeandra ? clivosa" = Pseudodiploria clivosa
"Maeandra ? clivosa" = Pseudodiploria clivosa Ellis and Solander 1786 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Siderastreidae
Siderastrea siderea Ellis and Solander 1786 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Poritidae
Porites cf. astreoides2 Lamarck 1816 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Acroporidae
Acropora palmata Lamarck 1816 stony coral
Acropora cervicornis1 Lamarck 1816 stony coral