"Lothinas Limestone", quarry near Broomage [St Croix Limestone Mbr, Cipero Marl]: Burdigalian, Trinidad and Tobago

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Tubothalamea - Miliolida - Soritidae
Archaias sp. Montfort 1808
Bivalvia - Arcida - Limopsidae
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Muricidae
unclassified
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Propeamussiidae
Gastropoda - Cypraeidae
Gastropoda - Opisthobranchiata - Cavoliniidae
unclassified
Gastropoda - Opisthobranchiata - Cavoliniidae
Gastropoda - Cypraeidae
Gastropoda - Eocypraeidae
see common names

Geography
Country:Trinidad and Tobago
Coordinates: 10.3° North, 61.4° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:10.5° North, 55.8° West (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Neogene Epoch: Miocene
Stage: Burdigalian 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 5
Key time interval: Burdigalian
Age range of interval: 20.45 - 15.98 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Cipero Marl Member:St Croix Limestone
Stratigraphic resolution:member
Stratigraphy comments: STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the "Lothinas Limestone" [=St Croix Limestone Mbr of the Cipero Marl]. AGE: Burdigalian on the basis of macrofossils biostratigraphy. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within these units
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "limestone"
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: LITHOLOGY: Not stated, but presumably a limestone on the basis of lithostratigraphic name. LITHIFICATION: Lithified, based on facies description.
Environment:coastal indet.
Geology comments: ENVIRONMENT: Fauna appears relatively shallow.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,microfossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: COLLECTORS: Multiple collectors including R. Rutsch and C.M.B. Caudri. REPOSITORY: Unknown.
Taxonomic list comments:COVERAGE: Exhaustive for gastropoda and bivalvia. NOMENCLATURE: Not an authoritative publication, with rather antiquated nomenclature, though with identifications made to species resolution.
Metadata
Database number:93369
Authorizer:A. Hendy Enterer:A. Hendy
Modifier:P. Wagner Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2010-01-15 08:41:34 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2010-01-15 08:41:34
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
31588. R. M. Stainforth. 1948. Description, correlation, and paleoecology of Tertiary Cipero Marl, Trinidad, BWI. Bulletin of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists 32(7):1292-1330 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]