Punt Kanon [Ceru Mainsjie Fm]: Bartonian, Netherlands Antilles

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Ostreidae
Cubitostrea sp. Sacco 1897
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
? Pycnodonte sp. (Fischer von Waldheim 1835)
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
Veneridae indet. Rafinesque 1815
Bivalvia - Carditida - Carditidae
Venericardia sp. Lamarck 1801
Gastropoda - Turritellidae
Gastropoda - Ficidae
Ficopsis sp. Conrad 1866
Gastropoda - Campanilidae
Campanile sp. Fischer 1884
see common names

Geography
Country:Netherlands Antilles State/province:Curacao
Coordinates: 12.1° North, 68.8° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:11.2° North, 55.4° West (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period: Paleogene Epoch: Eocene
Stage: Bartonian 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 3
Key time interval: Bartonian
Age range of interval: 41.03 - 37.71 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Ceru Mainsjie
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Collection derived from two horizons within the Ceru Mainsjie Formation a Punt Kanon. NMB 12910 is a sandstone bed (40 cm thick) and is about 20 m stratigraphically below NMB 12911. Considered to be Early Eocene by Altena (1941). Foraminiferal evidence of Keyzer (in Schaub 1948) suggested a Late Eocene age. Hermes (1968) used planktonic foraminifera to indicate a upper Middle Eocene age. Molluscan biostratigraphy excludes an Early Eocene age, though definately point to the Eocene. Taxa are most similar to those of Late Eocene age from Peru. Jung suggests therefore that the age is Late Eocene or somewhat older, but later indicates that is probably late Middle Eocene age. Therefore the enterer (A. Hendy) assigns a Bartonian age.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:pebbly,brown,green poorly lithified calcareous sandstone
Secondary lithology: poorly lithified calcareous claystone
Includes fossils?Y
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: Calcareous clay and silt and subordinate calcareous sandstone and conglomerate. Specifically mentions a brownish-green sandstone for this collection.
Environment:marginal marine indet.
Geology comments: Brackish water influence, although co-occuring with many normal salinity taxa.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,field collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Museum repositories:NMB
Collection method comments: Collections reposted in the Naturhistorisches Museum Basel (NMB). Collected by P. Jung (1971).
Taxonomic list comments:Exhaustive for Mollusca, although the authors suggest that careful collecting would yield further taxa. Eocene fossils from region have been reported previously by Hummelinck (1940) and mentioned by Molengraaf (1929), Rutsch (1939), and Schaub (1948).
Metadata
Also known as:NMB 12910, NMB 12911, Oostpunt
Database number:60089
Authorizer:A. Hendy Enterer:A. Hendy
Modifier:A. Hendy Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2006-04-30 09:13:33 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2006-04-30 09:13:33
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
17267. P. Jung. 1974. Eocene Mollusks from Curacao, West Indies. Verhandlungen der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Basel 84(1):483-500 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/M. Clapham]