F-1 (100-200 ft), Eniwetok Atol: Late Pleistocene, Marshall Islands
collected by ONR and USGS 1952
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Ulvophyceae
- Bryopsidales
- Halimedaceae
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Halimeda sp.
Lamouroux 1812
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Chamidae
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Chama sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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Gastropoda
- Trochidae
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Trochus (Trochus) histrio
(Reeve 1848)
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Ladd 1966 | ||||||
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Terebridae
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Terebra (Decorihastula) affinis
Gray 1834
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Ladd 1977 | ||||||
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Geography
| Country: | Marshall Islands |
| Coordinates: | 11.7° North, 162.2° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 11.0° North, 163.8° East |
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
| Stage: | Late Pleistocene | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
| Key time interval: | Late Pleistocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 0.129 - 0.0117 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Local section: | F-1 | Local bed: | 150 ft | ||
| Local order: | top to bottom | ||||
| Regional section: | Eniwetok Atol | Regional bed: | 150 ft | ||
| Regional order: | top to bottom | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From an undifferentiated lithostratigraphic unit. AGE: Late Pleistocene, on the basis of stratigraphic position. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: A composite from several beds within the section of drill core of 100-200 ft. | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | shelly/skeletal unlithified sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Sand, uncemented; made up largely of beach-type foraminifera, mixed with fragments of larger forms, including corals, echinoids, crustacean, and segments of calcareous algae. LITHIFICATION: Unlithified, on the basis facies description and figured specimens. | |
| Environment: | carbonate indet. |
| Geology comments: ENVIRONMENT: Carbonate facies. Shallow water. No paleoenvironmental data presented. | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils,microfossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | some genera | ||
| Collection methods: | core,field collection | ||
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | ||
| Museum repositories: | USNM | ||
| Collectors: | ONR and USGS | Collection dates: | 1952 |
| Collection method comments: COLLECTOR: Office of Naval Research and USGS, 1952. REPOSITORY: USNM. | |||
| Taxonomic list comments:COEVERAGE: Representative, but not exhaustive of bivalvia and gastropoda. NOMENCLATURE: Mixture of some slightly antiquated and broad identifications and more modern nomenclature, subgenus- and species-level identifications from an authoritative publication. IDENTIFIER: H. S. Ladd. | |||
Metadata
| Database number: | 43335 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Hendy | Enterer: | A. Hendy |
| Modifier: | A. Hendy | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2004-08-12 02:56:23 | Last modified: | 2013-11-25 13:37:23 |
| Access level: | authorizer only | Released: | 2005-08-12 02:56:23 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 11427. | H. S. Ladd and S.O. Schlanger. 1960. Drilling operations on Eniwetok Atoll. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 260(Y):863-903 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy] |
Secondary references:
| 26223 | H. S. Ladd. 1966. Chitons and Gastropods (Haliotidae through Adeorbidae) from Western Pacific Islands. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 531:1-98 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/J. Millet] | |
| 11410 | H. S. Ladd. 1977. Cenozoic fossil mollusks from Western Pacific Islands; Gastropods (Eratoidae through Harpidae). United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 533:1-84 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/J. Millet] |