Malekula (unknown Late Miocene unit) (Miocene of Vanuatu)

Where: Vanuatu (16.3° S, 167.5° E: paleocoordinates 16.2° S, 167.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: Unknown lithostratigraphic unit. AGE: Late Miocene in Abrard (1946), presumably on the basis of foraminiferal and macrofossil affinities to other dated Indo-Pacific faunas (e.g. Fiji).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified, volcaniclastic, calcareous siliciclastic sediments

• ENVIRONMENT: Shallow marine, siliciclastic setting.
• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Calcareous and volcanoclastic, presumably siliciclastic sediment. LITHIFICATION: Unlithified, based on figured specimens.

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by de la Rüe in 1934-1936

• COLLECTOR: E. A. de la Rüe (1934-1936). REPOSITORY: Not stated in text, possibly MNHN, Paris.

Primary reference: R. Abrard. 1946. Fossiles Néogénes et Quaternaires des Nouvelles-Hébrides. Annales de Paléontologie 32:1-112 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 77903: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 22.01.2008

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Exhaustive for gastropoda and bivalvia. NOMENCLATURE: Rather antiquated, but with species-resolution assignments. Nomenclature updated by Ladd (1966, 1977, 1982) where possible.
Foraminifera
 Nummulitacea - Nummulitidae
Cycloclypeus gumbelianus
SUBSPECIES: Cycloclypeus gumbelianus carpenteri
Gastropoda
 Cerithioidea - Cerithiidae
 Sorbeoconcha - Strombidae
 Neogastropoda - Turridae
 Sorbeoconcha - Rissoidae
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
"Chlamys (Aequipecten) corymbiatus" = Cryptopecten nux
"Chlamys (Aequipecten) corymbiatus" = Cryptopecten nux Reeve 1853 scallop
SUBSPECIES: Chlamys (Aequipecten) corymbiatus talicus