Where: Fiji (18.1° S, 176.4° E: paleocoordinates 22.3° S, 176.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Navosa Group, Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: Estimated to be from the Navosa Group [not stated, =Suva Fm?], which overlies the Nandi Group (?Middle Miocene), and is overlain by the Koroimavua Group (?Early Pliocene). AGE: Late Miocene on the basis of foraminiferal biostratigraphy. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From beds within section of 44 ft thickness.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Ladd; reposited in the USNM

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• COLLECTORS: H.S. Ladd. REPOSITORY: USNM (formely USGS collections).

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 78062: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 26.01.2008

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