Where: Haiti (18.4° N, 72.7° W: paleocoordinates 18.4° N, 72.6° 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
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: quarrying,
• COLLECTOR: Collecton code (MS) 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 66818: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 17.10.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Manicina sp. Ehrenberg 1834 stony coral | |
"Heliastrea annularis" = Orbicella annularis
"Heliastrea annularis" = Orbicella annularis Ellis and Solander 1876 stony coral | |
Siderastrea siderea Ellis and Solander 1786 stony coral | |
Bivalvia | |
"Lucina chrysostoma" = Anodontia alba
"Lucina chrysostoma" = Anodontia alba Link 1807 clam | |
Gastropoda | |
"Bullaria striata" = Bulla striata
"Bullaria striata" = Bulla striata Bruguiére 1792 snail | |
Strombus sp. Linnaeus 1758 conch | |
Cerithium sp. Bruguière 1789 cerith snail |