SM 1 - Chaine des Matheux (Pleistocene) (Pleistocene of Haiti)

Where: Haiti (18.5° N, 73.2° W: paleocoordinates 18.5° N, 73.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)

• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: From unnamed Pleistocene unit, which presumably overlies Pliocene strata of the Riviere Gauche Foramtion. AGE: Stated in text as being from the Pleistocene.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marineunlithified

• ENVIRONMENT: No environmental data reported in text.
• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Lithologic data not stated in text. LITHIFICATION: Assumed to be unlifithied on the basis of age. No figured specimens observed.

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: quarrying,

• COLLECTOR: Collecton code (SM) unknown. Probably does not refer to the author (J. Butterlin). REPOSITORY: Unknown repository.

Primary reference: J. Butterlin. 1960. Géologie générale et régionale de la République D'Haiti. Travaux et Mémoires de L'Institute des Hautes Estudes de L'Amérique Latine 6:1-190 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/S. Ávila]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 66812: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 17.10.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Exhaustive for marcroinvertebrates, including coelenterata, brachiopoda, echinoidea, bivalvia and gastropoda. NOMENCLATURE: Not an authoritative publication. Uses antiquated nomenclature, but with species resolution designations.
Gastropoda
 Neogastropoda - Volutidae
 Sorbeoconcha - Strombidae
"Strombus ? gigas" = Lobatus gigas
"Strombus ? gigas" = Lobatus gigas Linnaeus 1758 true conch
 Lepetellida - Fissurellidae
Diodora listeri d'Orbigny 1842 snail
Bivalvia
 Lucinida - Lucinidae
"Codakia orbicularis" = Codakia (Codakia) orbicularis
"Codakia orbicularis" = Codakia (Codakia) orbicularis Linnaeus 1758 clam
 Cardiida - Tellinidae
"Tellina fausta" = Arcopagia fausta
"Tellina fausta" = Arcopagia fausta Pulteney 1799 tellin clam
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Montastraeidae
"Heliastrea cavernosa" = Montastrea cavernosa
"Heliastrea cavernosa" = Montastrea cavernosa Linne 1767 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Agariciidae
Pavona sp. Lamarck 1801 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Mussidae
Diploria sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Merulinidae
"Heliastrea annularis" = Orbicella annularis
"Heliastrea annularis" = Orbicella annularis Ellis and Solander 1876 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Faviidae
Solenastrea bournoni Milne-Edwards and Haime 1849 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Acroporidae
Acropora sp. Oken 1815 stony coral