Station 9604 (Pliocene of Haiti)

Also known as B 68 F

Where: Haiti (18.3° N, 72.5° W: paleocoordinates 18.3° N, 72.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Pliocene (5.3 - 2.6 Ma)

• Pliocene beds at this locality dip more gently south-westward at angles of 10-25°, having virtually the same strike and dip as the underlying upper Eocene limestone.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, shelly/skeletal sandstone and lithified, shelly/skeletal, sandy marl

• No precise environmental information reported in text.
• Marly sandstone and sandy marl containing casts of molluks.

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: quarrying,

• Collected by W.P. Woodring, November 3, 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 60896: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 27.05.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Limited 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.
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Gastropoda
 Thecosomata - Cavoliniidae
Cavolinia sp.
Cavolinia sp. Avilgaard 1791 snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Cassidae
Sconsia cf. laevigata
Sconsia cf. laevigata Guppy 1850 snail
Bivalvia
 Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
"Leda sp." = Nuculana
"Leda sp." = Nuculana Link 1807 pointed nut clam