Las Cahobas Formation: Middle Miocene, Haiti

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Muricidae
Haustellum messorius (Sowerby 1841)
Vokes 1990
recombined as Vokesimurex messorius
Bivalvia - Arcida - Arcidae
Anadara (Grandiarca) chiriquensis
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Corbulidae
Corbula (Bothrocorbula) vimnea
Anderson 1996
original and current combination Bothrocorbula
see common names

Geography
Country:Haiti
Coordinates: 19.0° North, 72.4° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:18.9° North, 71.3° West
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 5
Key time interval:Middle Miocene
Age range of interval:15.98000 - 11.63000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Las Cahobas
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Stratigraphy comments: STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Las Cahobas Fm, for which lithostratigraphic relationships are not discussed. AGE: Middle Miocene, in Woodring (1973). STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Composite for formation.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "siliciclastic"
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Unknown. LITHIFICATION: Unknown.
Environment:marine indet.
Geology comments: ENVIRONMENT: Appearing to be shallow marine siliciclastic environment.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some genera,some macrofossils
Collection methods:surface (in situ),field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: COLLECTOR: Unknown. REPOSITORY: Unknown
Taxonomic list comments:COVERAGE: General list for Las Cahobas Fm, but limited to taxa described in taxonomic publications. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication, with species-level nomenclature, and modern nomenclature.
Metadata
Database number:96508
Authorizer:A. Hendy Enterer:A. Hendy
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2010-06-10 11:38:02 Last modified:2013-11-25 13:37:23
Access level:authorizer only Released:2011-06-10 11:38:02
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

13235. 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]

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]
36459 E. H. Vokes. 1990. Cenozoic Muricidae of the western Atlantic region, Part VIII - Murex ss, Haustellum, Chicoreus, and Hexaplex; additions and corrections. Tulane Studies in Geology and Paleontology 23(1-3):1-96 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]