Bowden Formation (unspecified localities): Late/Upper Pliocene, Jamaica

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Antillipecten antillarum (Récluz 1853)
Waller 2011
Argopecten ameleus (Woodring 1925)
Waller 2011
Argopecten uselmae (Pilsbry and Johnson 1917)
Waller 2011
Spathochlamys vaginula (Dall 1898)
Waller 2011
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Propeamussiidae
Cyclopecten guppyi (Dall 1898)
Waller 2011
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Corbulidae
Corbula (Caryocorbula) sericea (Dall 1898)
Anderson 1996
Varicorbula heterogena
Anderson 1996
spelled with current rank as Corbula (Varicorbula)
Corbula (Bothrocorbula) vimnea
Anderson 1996
original and current combination Bothrocorbula
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Columbellidae
Eurypyrene eurynotum (Woodring 1928)
Columbella platynema Woodring 1928
Columbella submercatoria Olsson 1922
Sincola (Sinaxila) naufraga
Jung 1989
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Muricidae
Poirieria (Flexopteron) collata (Guppy 1873)
Vokes 1998
Murex (Haustellum) messorius (Sowerby 1841)
Vokes 1998
recombined as Vokesimurex messorius
Typhis (Talityphis) expansus (Sowerby 1874)
Vokes 1998
recombined as Typhina expansa
Gastropoda - Personidae
Distorsio simillima (Sowerby 1850)
Beu 2010
Distorsio mcgintyi Emerson and Puffer 1953
Beu 2010
Distorsio clathrata (Lamarck 1816)
Beu 2010
Gastropoda - Cassidae
Semicassis reclusa (Guppy 1873)
Beu 2010
Cassis altispira Beu 2010
Beu 2010
Cassis costulifera Beu 2010
Beu 2010
Sconsia grayi Adams 1855
Beu 2010
Gastropoda - Ranellidae
Monoplex parthenopeus (von Salis Marschlins 1793)
Beu 2010
Monoplex comptus (Adams 1855)
Beu 2010
Monoplex krebsii (Mörch 1877)
Beu 2010
Turritriton labiosus (Wood 1828)
Beu 2010
Cymatium femorale (Linnaeus 1758)
Beu 2010
Gastropoda - Bursidae
Marsupina bufo (Bruguiére 1792)
Beu 2010
Gastropoda - Tonnidae
Malea camura Guppy 1866
Beu 2010
see common names

Geography
Country:Jamaica
Coordinates: 17.9° North, 76.3° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:17.9° North, 76.0° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Pliocene
Stage:Piacenzian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Late/Upper Pliocene
Age range of interval:3.60000 - 2.58000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Coastal Formation:Bowden
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Stratigraphy comments: STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From Pickerill et al. (1998). Bowden Formation is the uppermost stratigraphic unit of the Lower Coastal Group. The top of the formation is defined by the nonconformably overlying, early Pleistocene Old Pera Beds of the Upper Coastal Group. AGE: Late Pliocene. The unit was formely regarded as Miocene in age, even Oligocene, but foraminiferal and planktic gastropod biostratigraphy points to a late Pliocene age. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Unknown position within formation.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:pebbly,shelly/skeletal unlithified conglomeratic gravel
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Imperfectly consolidated gravel consisting of pebbles and grains of igneous rocks, limestone, and other sorts of rock in a marly matrix. LITHIFICATION: Unlithified, based on observation of specimens.
Environment:offshore
Geology comments: ENVIRONMENT: The conglomeratic lithofacies are interpretated as a product of sediment gravity flows, more specifically turbidites, and constitute and integral component of the Bowden Shell bed. The marlstone lithofacies is interpreted as a product of pelagic and hemiplegaic deposition from low density turbidity currents, or possibly even bottom water nepheloid layers.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original aragonite,original calcite
Degree of concentration:concentrated
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some genera,some macrofossils
Collection methods:surface (in situ),survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: COLLECTOR: Multiple collectors. REPOSITORY: Multiple repositories.
Taxonomic list comments:NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication, with species-resolution identifications, and modern nomenclature. COVERAGE: Limited to taxa described in restricted taxonomic monographs.
Metadata
Database number:131915
Authorizer:A. Hendy Enterer:A. Hendy
Modifier:A. Hendy Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2012-08-02 04:33:22 Last modified:2013-11-25 13:37:23
Access level:authorizer only Released:2014-08-02 04:33:22
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
19070. P. Jung. 1994. Neogene Paleontology in the Northern Dominican Republic 15. The Genera Columbella, Eurypyrene, Parametaria, Conella, Nitidella, and Metulella (Gastropoda: Columbellidae). Bulletins of American Paleontology 106(344):1-45 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]

Secondary references:

24475 L. C. Anderson. 1996. Neogene Paleontology in the Northern Dominican Republic 16. The Family Corbulidae (Mollusca: Bivalvia). Bulletins of American Paleontology 110(351):5-34 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]
30037 A. G. Beu. 2010. Neogene Tonnoidean Gastropods of Tropical and South America; contributions to the Dominican Republic and Panama Paleontology Projects and Uplift of the Central American Isthmus. Bulletins of American Paleontology (377-378)1-550 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]
26828 P. Jung. 1989. Revision of the Strombina-group (Gastropoda; Columbellidae), fossil and living. Schweierische Paläontologische Abhandlungen 111:1-298 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]
18707 E. H. Vokes. 1998. Neogene Paleontology in the Northern Dominican Republic 18. The Superfamily Volutacea (in part) (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Bulletins of American Paleontology 113(354):1-54 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]
37262 T. R. Waller. 2011. Neogene Paleontology of the Northern Dominican Republic. 24. Propeamussidae and Pectinidae (Mollusca: Bivalvia: Pectinoidea) of the Cibao Valley. Bulletins of American Paleontology (381)1-198 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]