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 80287: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 10.04.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
"Cyathodonta reedsi" = Thracia (Cyathodonta)
"Cyathodonta reedsi" = Thracia (Cyathodonta) clam | |
"Cardium (Laevicardium) serratum" = Laevicardium serratum
"Cardium (Laevicardium) serratum" = Laevicardium serratum Linnaeus 1758 cockle | |
"Teredo incrassata" = Kuphus incrassatus
"Teredo incrassata" = Kuphus incrassatus Gabb 1873 clam | |
"Lucinisca hoveyi" = Lucina (Lucinisca), "Phacoides (Here) quebradillicus" = Here
"Lucinisca hoveyi" = Lucina (Lucinisca) clam
"Phacoides (Here) quebradillicus" = Here clam | |
Gastropoda | |
"Haminea granosa" = Haminoea
"Haminea granosa" = Haminoea snail | |
Cancellaria sp. Lamarck 1799 snail | |
"Olivella muticoides" = Olivella (Olivella) muticoides
"Olivella muticoides" = Olivella (Olivella) muticoides Gabb 1873 olive snail | |
"Drillia consors" = Hindsiclava consors
"Drillia consors" = Hindsiclava consors Sowerby 1850 snail | |
Xenophora conchyliophora Born 1780 carrier shell |