Where: Marshall Islands (11.7° N, 162.2° E: paleocoordinates 8.8° N, 168.4° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From an undifferentiated lithostratigraphic unit. AGE: Late Miocene, on the basis of foraminiferal biostratigraphy. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: A composite from several beds within the section of drill core of 600-700 ft.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; unlithified carbonate
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by ONR and USGS in 1952; reposited in the UNSM
Collection methods: core,
• COLLECTOR: Office of Naval Research and USGS, 1952. REPOSITORY: USNM.
Primary reference: H. S. Ladd. 1966. Chitons and Gastropods (Haliotidae through Adeorbidae) from Western Pacific Islands. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 531:1-98 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/J. Millet]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 77984: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 24.01.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Phasianella sp. Lamarck 1804 snail | |
"Leptothyra balnearii" = Collonista, "Leptothyra wellsi" = Collonista
"Leptothyra balnearii" = Collonista snail
"Leptothyra wellsi" = Collonista snail | |
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Nerita (Amphinerita) insculpta Récluz 1841 snail
Smaragdia (Smaragdia) "sp. A" Issel 1869 snail | |
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"Polinices (Polinices) mammilla" = Natica (Natica) mamilla2
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"Terebra (Strioterebrum) "sp. A"" = Strioterebrum3
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Polyplacophora | |
Schizochiton marshallensis Ladd 1966 chiton |