Station 9557 (Miocene of Haiti)

Also known as W 116 F

Where: Haiti (18.9° N, 72.1° W: paleocoordinates 18.5° N, 71.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Aquitanian (23.0 - 20.4 Ma)

• Foraminifera similar to assemblages found in the Emperador Limstone of Panama and the Anguilla Formation of Anguilla. Corals also suggest a Late Oligocene-Early Miocene age. Probably correlated to the Culebra and Emperador Fm's of Panama. Stated in text to be Late Oligocene in age, but the authors specifically refer to the Aquitanian stage, and hence an Early Miocene age (Aquitanian) is assigned. Limestone is several hundred metres thick. Rests unconformably upon a basement of schistose limestone.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; poorly lithified, gray, white, yellow limestone

• No precise environmental information reported in text. Reefal limestone.
• Limestone, gray or yellowish on weathered surfaces and white on unweathered surfaces.

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: quarrying,

• Collected by W.P. Woodring, December 3, 1920.

Primary reference: W. P. Woodring, J. S. Brown, and W.S. Burbank. 1924. Geology of the Republic of Haiti. 1-631 [A. Miller/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 60611: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 18.05.2006

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Taxonomic list

• Small list of Mollusca, probably not exhaustive, other faunal groups (forams, corals, echinoderms) listed in text if present. Nomenclature antiquated (but should be precise as identified by W.P. Woodring and S.T. Stanton) and often limited to sp. determinations (owing to poor, moldic preservation). Identifications of corals by T.W. Vaughan, Echinoderms by R.T. Jackson, and forams by W.P. Woodring.
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Bivalvia
 Arcida - Arcidae
"Arca cf. umbonata" = Lamarcka imbricata
"Arca cf. umbonata" = Lamarcka imbricata Bruguière 1789 clam
Tubothalamea
 Miliolida - Soritidae
Sorites americana