Trinidad [San Jose Mbr, Manzanilla Fm] (Miocene of Trinidad and Tobago)

Where: Trinidad and Tobago (10.6° N, 61.1° W: paleocoordinates 10.3° N, 58.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: San Jose Member (Manzanilla Formation), Middle Miocene (16.0 - 11.6 Ma)

• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: From the San Jose Member of the Manzanilla Formation, for which lithostratigraphic relationships are not discussed. AGE: Middle Miocene. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Composite list for member.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; siliciclastic sediments

• The assemblage as a whole points to a nearshore environment, with some brackish influence (compared with Melajo Clay assemblages).
• LITHOLOGY: Unknown. LITHIFICATION: Unknown.

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 96522: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 10.06.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• RAGE: Limited to taxa miscellaneously mentioned in text. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication, with modern nomenclature, and species-resolution identifications.
Bivalvia
 Cardiida - Veneridae
Clementia (Clementia) dariena2 Conrad 1855 venus clam
SUBSPECIES: Clementia (Clementia) dariena rabelli
Cyclinella cyclica2 Guppy 1866 venus clam
 Cardiida - Mactridae
 Pholadida - Corbulidae
 Arcida - Arcidae
Gastropoda
 Neogastropoda - Borsoniidae
Microdrillia trina1 Mansfield 1925 snail
 Neogastropoda - Mangeliidae
Dolostoma anorhepes1 Woodring 1970 snail