USGS 6894, Crocus Bay: Burdigalian - Serravallian, Anguilla
collected by T. W. Vaughan 1914

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Montastraeidae
Orbicella costata (Duncan 1863)
Vaughan 1919
Vaughan 1919
Vaughan 1919
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Pocilloporidae
Vaughan 1919
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Siderastreidae
Vaughan 1919
Siderastrea conferta (Duncan 1863)
Vaughan 1919
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Poritidae
Vaughan 1919
Vaughan 1919
Vaughan 1919
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Spondylidae
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Pecten gabbi Dall 1898
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Pinnidae
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Tellinidae
Gastropoda - Turritellidae
Gastropoda - Naticidae
Sinum chipolanum (Dall 1892)
Gastropoda - Cypraeidae
Gastropoda - Xenophoridae
Xenophora sp. Fischer von Waldheim 1807
Gastropoda - Ampullinidae
Malacostraca - Decapoda - Callianassidae
Rathbun 1919
see common names

Geography
Country:Anguilla
Coordinates: 18.2° North, 63.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:19.0° North, 59.4° West (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Neogene Epoch: Miocene
Stage: Burdigalian - Serravallian 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 5
Key time interval: Burdigalian - Serravallian
Age range of interval: 20.45 - 11.63 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Anguilla
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "limestone"
Secondary lithology: argillaceous "limestone"
Environment:reef, buildup or bioherm
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:USNM
Collectors:T. W. Vaughan Collection dates:1914
Metadata
Also known as:Reef 642
Database number:179134
Authorizer:P. Wagner, M. Clapham Enterer:P. Wagner, M. Clapham
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2016-06-01 09:48:46 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2016-06-01 09:48:46
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
25441. C. W. Cooke. 1919. Tertiary mollusks from the Leeward Islands and Cuba. Contributions to the geology and paleontology of the West Indies. Carnegie Institution of Washington 105-156 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]

Secondary references:

43357decapod,fossil record M. J. Rathbun. 1919. West Indian Tertiary decapod crustaceans. In T. W. Vaughan (ed.), Contributions to the Geology and Paleontology of the West Indies 157-184 [C. Schweitzer/S. Yost/M. Clapham]
12754 T. W. Vaughan. 1919. Fossil corals from central America, Cuba, and Porto Rico, with an account of the American Tertiary, Pleistocene, and Recent coral reefs. Smithsonian Institution Bulletin 103:189-524 [R. Baron-Szabo/R. Baron-Szabo/M. Uhen]