Where: Dominica (15.5° N, 61.5° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shoreface; pebbly, conglomeratic rudstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Spencer
Primary reference: J. W. W. Spencer. 1902. On the geological and physical development of Dominica; with notes on Martinique, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, and the Grenadines. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society 58:341-353 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 209345: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 29.04.2020
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
"Colpophyllia gyrosa" = Manicina areolata
"Colpophyllia gyrosa" = Manicina areolata Linnaeus 1758 stony coral | |
Orbicella acropora stony coral | |
"Orbicella cavernosa" = Montastrea cavernosa
"Orbicella cavernosa" = Montastrea cavernosa Linne 1767 stony coral | |
Siderastrea siderea Ellis and Solander 1786 stony coral | |
"Isopora palmata" = Acropora palmata
"Isopora palmata" = Acropora palmata Lamarck 1816 stony coral | |
Bivalvia | |
"Venus paphia" = Lirophora (Lirophora) paphia, "Venus cancellata" = Chione cancellata
"Venus paphia" = Lirophora (Lirophora) paphia Linnaeus 1767 venus clam
"Venus cancellata" = Chione cancellata Linnaeus 1767 venus clam | |
Cardium subelongatum cockle | |
Lutricola interstriata tellin clam | |
Lucina aurantia clam | |
"Pecten cf. subnodosus" = Nodipecten subnodosus, Pecten sp.
"Pecten cf. subnodosus" = Nodipecten subnodosus Sowerby 1836 scallop
Pecten sp. Müller 1776 scallop | |
"Glycymeris pectinata" = Tucetona pectinata, Glycymeris undata
"Glycymeris pectinata" = Tucetona pectinata Gmelin 1791 clam
Glycymeris undata clam | |
Tellinella listeri | |
"Tellina interrupta" = Tellinella listeri
"Tellina interrupta" = Tellinella listeri Röding 1798 |