Station 9602: Pleistocene, Haiti

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Merulinidae
Orbicella annularis (Ellis and Solander 1876)
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Acroporidae
Acropora muricata (Linnaeus 1758)
    = Acropora cervicornis Lamarck 1816
Kiessling 2003
muricata is a nomen dubium - this is the most likely identification
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Agariciidae
Agaricia agaricites (Linnaeus 1758)
Subspecies: Agarica agaricites purpurea
Gastropoda - Xenophoridae
Xenophora conchyliophora (Born 1780)
Bivalvia - Lucinida - Lucinidae
Phacoides (Here) ? pennsylvanicus (Linnaeus 1758)
recombined as Lucina pensylvanica
see common names

Geography
Country:Haiti
Coordinates: 18.3° North, 72.5° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:18.3° North, 72.4° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Altitude:60 meters
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Pleistocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Pleistocene
Age range of interval:2.58000 - 0.01170 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Local section:Arrondissement of Jacmel
Regional section:Jacmel
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Marine deposits are common along the coast where they form narrow fringes, a few places 1 or 2 km wide. The Quaternary deposits everywhere rest on the underlying formations unconformably. The unconformity is angular as well as erosional, even with the Pliocene and Miocene, but at some places where there are no Pliocene deposits the discordance with the Miocene deposits may be slight.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:shelly/skeletal poorly lithified "limestone"
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: Coralliferous limestone.
Environment:reef, buildup or bioherm
Geology comments: No precise environmental information reported in text.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:poor
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,field collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Collection method comments: Collected by W.P. Woodring, November 1, 1920.
Taxonomic list comments:Exhaustive list of Mollusca. Other faunal groups (forams, corals, echinoderms) listed in text if present. Nomenclature antiquated (but should be precise as identified by W.P. Woodring and S.T. Stanton). Identifications of corals by T.W. Vaughan, Echinoderms by R.T. Jackson, and forams by W.P. Woodring.
Metadata
Also known as:W 61 F
Database number:60893
Authorizer:A. Hendy, W. Kiessling Enterer:A. Hendy, W. Kiessling
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2006-05-26 23:49:33 Last modified:2013-11-25 13:37:23
Access level:the public Released:2006-05-26 23:49:32
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

17411. W. P. Woodring, J. S. Brown, and W.S. Burbank. 1924. Geology of the Republic of Haiti. 1-631 [A. Miller/A. Hendy]

Secondary references:

9159 W. Kiessling. 2003. Personal data. [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]