Las Cahobas Formation: Middle Miocene, Haiti
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Bivalvia
- Arcida
- Arcidae
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Bivalvia
- Pholadida
- Corbulidae
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| Anderson 1996 | |||||||
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Muricidae
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Haustellum messorius
(Sowerby 1841)
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Vokes 1990 | ||||||
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Geography
| Country: | Haiti |
| Coordinates: | 19.0° North, 72.4° West (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 20.2° North, 69.1° West (Wright 2013) |
| Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit |
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 5 | ||
| Key time interval: | Middle Miocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 15.98 - 11.63 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Las Cahobas | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | formation | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Las Cahobas Fm, for which lithostratigraphic relationships are not discussed. AGE: Middle Miocene, in Woodring (1973). STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Composite for formation. | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | "siliciclastic" |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Unknown. LITHIFICATION: Unknown. | |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
| Geology comments: ENVIRONMENT: Appearing to be shallow marine siliciclastic environment. | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | some genera,some macrofossils |
| Collection methods: | surface (in situ),field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Collection method comments: COLLECTOR: Unknown. REPOSITORY: Unknown | |
| Taxonomic list comments:COVERAGE: General list for Las Cahobas Fm, but limited to taxa described in taxonomic publications. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication, with species-level nomenclature, and modern nomenclature. | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 96508 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Hendy | Enterer: | A. Hendy | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2010-06-10 11:38:02 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | authorizer only | Released: | 2011-06-10 11:38:02 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 13235. | W. P. Woodring. 1973. Geology and paleontology of canal zone and adjoing parts of Panama: Description of Tertiary mollusks (additions to gastropods, scaphopods, pelecypods: Nuculidae to Malleidae). United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 306(E):453-539 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy] |
Secondary references:
| 24475 | L. C. Anderson. 1996. Neogene Paleontology in the Northern Dominican Republic 16. The Family Corbulidae (Mollusca: Bivalvia). Bulletins of American Paleontology 110(351):5-34 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/A. Hendy] | |
| 36459 | E. H. Vokes. 1990. Cenozoic Muricidae of the western Atlantic region, Part VIII - Murex ss, Haustellum, Chicoreus, and Hexaplex; additions and corrections. Tulane Studies in Geology and Paleontology 23(1-3):1-96 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy] |