Also known as Rohr 11637
Where: Trinidad and Tobago (10.3° N, 61.3° W: paleocoordinates 9.8° N, 57.7° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Globigerinatella insueta foram zone, Brasso Formation, Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)
• from the invalid "upper zone" of the "Esmeralda member" of Renz 1942
•foram zone is Early Miocene: see Stone 1968
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; silty, calcareous claystone
Size class: microfossils
Collected by K. Rohr
Primary reference: W. A. van den Bold. 1958. Ostracoda of the Brasso Formation of Trinidad. Micropaleontology 4(4):391-418 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 93911: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 06.02.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Ostracoda | |
Cytherella polita ostracod
Cytherella aff. sylverinica Howe and Law 1936 ostracod | |
Propontocypris sp. ostracod
Argilloecia hiwanneensis Howe and Law 1936 ostracod | |
Cytheropteron renzi ostracod | |
Bradleya dictyon Brady 1880 ostracod |