Where: Trinidad and Tobago (10.7° N, 61.1° W: paleocoordinates 10.6° N, 60.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Matura Formation, Pliocene (5.3 - 2.6 Ma)

• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: From the Matura Formation, for which lithostratigraphic relationships are not discussed. AGE: Pliocene. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Composite list for formation.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: COLLECTORS: 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 96518: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 10.06.2010

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