Also known as Loc. 11
Where: Bermuda (32.3° N, 64.7° W: paleocoordinates 32.3° N, 64.7° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Belmont Formation, Middle Pleistocene (0.8 - 0.1 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From Belmont Formation, which lies between the Walsingham Fm (Early-Middle Pleistocene) and the Devonshire Fm (Late Pleistocene). THICKNESS: Unknown thickness of unit AGE: Shells are radiometrically dated to 300 Ka. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Unknown position with unit.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: foreshore; poorly lithified, calcareous sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: original aragonite, original calcite
Reposited in the ANSP
Collection methods: quarrying,
• COLLECTOR: H.G. Richards and T. Skymer (June, 1967), B. Bitters (June, 1968), and previously S. B. Upchurch and L. Vacher. REPOSITORY: Dept. of Geology, Academy of Natural Sciences.
Primary reference: H. G. Richards, R. T. Abbott, and T. Skymer. 1969. The marine Pleistocene mollusks of Bermuda. Notulae Naturae 425:1-10 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 67964: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 19.12.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Hipponix subrufus hoof shell | |
"Conus bermudensis" = Conus mindanus
"Conus bermudensis" = Conus mindanus Hwass 1792 cone shell | |
Siphonaria alternata Say 1826 pulmonate | |
"Astraea phoebia" = Astralium phoebium, Astraea sp.
"Astraea phoebia" = Astralium phoebium Röding 1798 snail
Astraea sp. Röding 1798 snail | |
Bulla striata Bruguiére 1792 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
"Glycymeris pectinata" = Tucetona pectinata
"Glycymeris pectinata" = Tucetona pectinata Gmelin 1791 clam | |
Spondylus americanus Hermann 1781 scallop | |
Plicatula gibbosa Lamarck 1801 scallop | |
Lima caribaea d'Orbigny 1853 file clam |