Where: Puerto Rico (18.5° N, 67.0° W: paleocoordinates 18.4° N, 65.9° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Quebradillas Limestone Formation, Middle Miocene (16.0 - 11.6 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Quebradillas Limestone, which regionally overlie the Ponce chalky beds [subsequently referred to as Ponce Fm], and is laterally related to the Oak Grove Sands (Florida). AGE: Early-Middle Miocene based on macro- and microfaunal biostratigraphy in text. Here assigned to Middle Miocene based on more recent dating. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within formation.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: cast, mold/impression
Collected by Reeds in 1915
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
• COLLECTOR: C. Reeds (AMNH), 1915. REPOSITORY: Not stated, but is likely to be AMNH, New York.
Primary reference: C. J. Maury. 1920. Tertiary Mollusca from Porto Rico. Scientific Survey of Porto Rico and the Virgin Islands 3(1):1-78 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 80245: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 09.04.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Malea camura Guppy 1866 tun shell | |
"Phos fasciolatus" = Pallacera guadelupensis
"Phos fasciolatus" = Pallacera guadelupensis Petit 1852 snail | |
"Marginella coniformis" = Prunum coniforme
"Marginella coniformis" = Prunum coniforme Sowerby 1850 margin shell | |
"Drillia consors" = Hindsiclava consors
"Drillia consors" = Hindsiclava consors Sowerby 1850 snail | |
"Haminea granosa" = Haminoea
"Haminea granosa" = Haminoea snail | |
Bivalvia | |
"Cyathodonta reedsi" = Thracia (Cyathodonta)
"Cyathodonta reedsi" = Thracia (Cyathodonta) clam | |
Psammosolen cf. sanctidominici Maury 1917 clam | |
Florimetis chipolana Dall 1900 tellin clam | |
"Cardium (Laevicardium) serratum" = Laevicardium serratum, "Cardium (Trigoniocardia) haitense" = Trigoniocardia (Trigoniocardia) haitensis
"Cardium (Laevicardium) serratum" = Laevicardium serratum Linnaeus 1758 cockle
"Cardium (Trigoniocardia) haitense" = Trigoniocardia (Trigoniocardia) haitensis Sowerby 1850 cockle | |
"Lucinisca hoveyi" = Lucina (Lucinisca)
"Lucinisca hoveyi" = Lucina (Lucinisca) clam |