Where: Haiti (19.0° N, 72.4° W: paleocoordinates 18.9° N, 71.3° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Las Cahobas Formation, Middle Miocene (16.0 - 11.6 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Las Cahobas Fm, for which lithostratigraphic relationships are not discussed. AGE: Middle Miocene, in Woodring (1973). STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Composite for formation.
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
• COLLECTOR: Unknown. REPOSITORY: Unknown
Primary reference: W. P. Woodring. 1973. Geology and paleontology of canal zone and adjoing parts of Panama: Description of Tertiary mollusks (additions to gastropods, scaphopods, pelecypods: Nuculidae to Malleidae). United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 306(E):453-539 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 96508: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 10.06.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
"Corbula (Bothrocorbula) vimnea" = Bothrocorbula1
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Gastropoda | |
"Haustellum messorius" = Vokesimurex messorius2
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