Where: Marshall Islands (11.6° N, 165.4° E: paleocoordinates 8.6° N, 171.6° 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 800-900 ft.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; unlithified lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: original aragonite
Collected by JTF in 1947; reposited in the USNM
Collection methods: core,
• COLLECTOR: Operation Crossroads, Joint Task Force One, 1947. 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 78022: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 25.01.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Polyplacophora | |
Schizochiton marshallensis Ladd 1966 chiton | |
Gastropoda | |
"Leptothyra wellsi" = Collonista
"Leptothyra wellsi" = Collonista snail | |
Phasianella sp. Lamarck 1804 snail | |
"Capulus (Krebsia) "sp. B"" = Krebsia1
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"Trivia (Trivirostra) oryza" = Trivirostra oryza2
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