Where: Haiti (19.0° N, 72.3° W: paleocoordinates 17.3° N, 71.6° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Eocene (56.0 - 33.9 Ma)
• GENERAL STRATIGRAPHY: Stated in text as being from "l'Eocene, sous-Systeme non determine".
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: quarrying,
• Unknown collection repository. Requires translation.
Primary reference: J. Butterlin. 1960. Géologie générale et régionale de la République D'Haiti. Travaux et Mémoires de L'Institute des Hautes Estudes de L'Amérique Latine 6:1-190 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/S. Ávila]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 61190: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 30.05.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea | |
Echinanthus aff. minor sea urchin | |
Circopeltis aff. bouillei sea urchin | |
Gastropoda | |
Velates sp. Montfort 1810 snail | |
Bittium kocneri cerith snail | |
Turritella aff. dutexata Harris 1895 turret shell | |
"Calyptraea aff. aperta" = Calyptraea (Trochita) aperta
"Calyptraea aff. aperta" = Calyptraea (Trochita) aperta Solander 1766 slipper shell | |
Natica sp. Scopoli 1777 moon snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Lithophaga sublithophaga mussel | |
"Tapes ex gr. tenerrima" = Callithaca tenerrima
"Tapes ex gr. tenerrima" = Callithaca tenerrima Carpenter 1857 venus clam | |
Lucina sp. Bruguière 1797 clam | |
"Cardita parva" = Venericardia (Pleuromeris) parva
"Cardita parva" = Venericardia (Pleuromeris) parva Lea 1833 clam | |
Anthozoa | |
Astrocoenia incrustans Duncan 1863 stony coral
Stylocoenia sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1849 stony coral |