Where: Trinidad and Tobago (10.2° N, 61.6° W: paleocoordinates 10.2° N, 60.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Courbaril Member (Morne l'Enfer Formation), Early/Lower Pliocene (5.3 - 3.6 Ma)

• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: From the Courbaril Sand and Clay Member of the upper Morne l'Enfer Formation. AGE: Considered to be of early Pliocene age and is probably slightly older than the Matura fauna. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Composite list for member.

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shoreface; poorly lithified sandstone and claystone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: COLLECTORS: Unknown. REPOSITORY: Unknown.

Primary reference: W. P. Woodring. 1982. Geology and paleontology of canal zone and adjoing parts of Panama: Description of Tertiary mollusks (Pelecypods: Propeamussiidae to Cuspidariidae). United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 306(F) [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 96517: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 10.06.2010

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