Marac Quarry (Rutsch locality 22): Thanetian, Trinidad and Tobago
collected by H.G. Kugler

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda - Nautilida - Hercoglossidae
Miller and Downs 1950
(1 measurement)
Miller 1947
(1 measurement)
see common names

Geography
Country:Trinidad and Tobago
Coordinates: 10.1° North, 61.3° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:6.7° North, 41.6° West (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Time
Period: Paleogene Epoch: Paleocene
Stage: Thanetian 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 1
Key time interval: Thanetian
Age range of interval: 59.24 - 56 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Soldado
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:glauconitic,red lithified "limestone"
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:all macrofossils
Collection methods:survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collectors:H.G. Kugler
Collection method comments: Repository: Museum of Natural History at Basel, Switzerland
Metadata
Database number:166081
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:K. Okamoto, M. Clapham
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2015-02-03 16:37:22 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2015-02-03 16:37:22
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
27690. A. K. Miller and M. L. Thompson. 1937. Beiträge zur Kenntnis tropisch-americkanischer Tertiärmollusken. VI. Some Tertiary nautiloids from Venezuela and Trinidad. Ecologae Geologicae Helvetiae 30(1):59-73 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/M. Clapham]

Secondary references:

27587 A. K. Miller. 1947. Tertiary nautiloids of the Americas. Geological Society of America Memoir 23:1-234 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]
59868 A. K. Miller and H. R. Downs. 1950. Tertiary nautiloids of the Americas: supplement. Journal of Paleontology 24:1-18 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]