"Lothinas Limestone", quarry near Broomage [St Croix Limestone Mbr, Cipero Marl] (Miocene of Trinidad and Tobago)

Where: Trinidad and Tobago (10.3° N, 61.4° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 10.5° N, 55.8° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: St Croix Limestone Member (Cipero Marl Formation), Burdigalian (20.4 - 16.0 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the "Lothinas Limestone" [=St Croix Limestone Mbr of the Cipero Marl]. AGE: Burdigalian on the basis of macrofossils biostratigraphy. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within these units

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified limestone

• ENVIRONMENT: Fauna appears relatively shallow.
• LITHOLOGY: Not stated, but presumably a limestone on the basis of lithostratigraphic name. LITHIFICATION: Lithified, based on facies description.

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Collection methods: COLLECTORS: Multiple collectors including R. Rutsch and C.M.B. Caudri. REPOSITORY: Unknown.

Primary reference: R. M. Stainforth. 1948. Description, correlation, and paleoecology of Tertiary Cipero Marl, Trinidad, BWI. Bulletin of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists 32(7):1292-1330 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 93369: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 15.01.2010

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Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Exhaustive for gastropoda and bivalvia. NOMENCLATURE: Not an authoritative publication, with rather antiquated nomenclature, though with identifications made to species resolution.
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Bivalvia
 Arcida - Limopsidae
Limopsis (Pectunculina) subangularis fischnechti
Gastropoda
 Neogastropoda - Muricidae
Typhis aff. alatus obesus
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Propeamussiidae
Propeamussium bronni pennyi
Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Cypraeidae
Luria (Basilitrona) sanctesebastiani adivinanzensis
 Thecosomata - Cavoliniidae
Cavolinia audeninoi trinitatis
unclassified
  -
Socrites sp.
Gastropoda
 Thecosomata - Cavoliniidae
Clio pulcherrima, Clio cf. lavaysea, Vaginella cf. lapugyensis
 Sorbeoconcha - Eocypraeidae
Sphaerocypraea wegeneri
Sphaerocypraea wegeneri Schilder 1939 snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Cypraeidae
"Jousseaumea joosi" = Jousseaumea joossi, Cypraeorbis perplexa
"Jousseaumea joosi" = Jousseaumea joossi Schilder 1939 cowry
Cypraeorbis perplexa Schilder 1939 cowry
Tubothalamea
 Miliolida - Soritidae
Archaias sp.
Archaias sp. Montfort 1808