Where: Marshall Islands (11.7° N, 162.3° E: paleocoordinates 8.8° N, 168.5° 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 list from several beds within this section of drill core, from 800-900 ft.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: unlithified lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by ONR and USGS in 1951; reposited in the UNSM
Collection methods: core,
• COLLECTOR: Office of Naval Research and USGS, 1951. 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 77991: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 24.01.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
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"Coralliophila (Fusomurex) "sp. A"" = Hirtomurex2
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"Petaloconchus (Macrophragma) merkana" = Macrophragma1
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"Seila (Notoseila) waluensis" = Notoseila1
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Iravadia gardnerae snail | |
"Astraea (Bellastraea) "sp. D"" = Astralium, "Leptothyra masculosa" = Collonista
"Astraea (Bellastraea) "sp. D"" = Astralium Link 1807 snail
"Leptothyra masculosa" = Collonista snail | |
Haplocochlias "sp. A" Carpenter 1864 snail | |
Smaragdia (Smaragdia) jogjacartensis Martin 1916 snail |