Sample 2, station 24745, collected by Wilfred Bryan, 1969 (Eocene of Tonga)

Where: Eua, Tonga (21.4° S, 174.9° W: paleocoordinates 31.1° S, 175.8° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Priabonian (38.0 - 33.9 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: slope; lithified limestone and poorly lithified, tuffaceous limestone

• This is slope deposit consisting of deepwater and allochthonous shallow water taxa
• soft tuffaceous limestones

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: original calcite

Collected by H.T. Stearns, Kondo, W. Bryan; reposited in the USNM

Collection methods: bulk, sieve,

• The soft tuffaceous limestones collected on Fua were treated with a wetting agent and penetrant in the laboratory. The material broke down easily, re- vealing a variety of fossil remains. The material is from two samples collected from approximately the same out- crop about one-quarter mile north of Vaingana, Eua, Tonga

Primary reference: A. H. Cheetham. 1972. Cheilostome Byrozoa of Late Eocene age from Eua, Tonga. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper (640-E) [S. Peters/S. Peters]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 166842: authorized by Shanan Peters, entered by Shanan Peters on 01.03.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• re- vealing a variety of fossil remains: Foraminifera, discoasters, corals, hydrozoans, brachiopods, bryo- zoans, annelids, crinoids, echinoids, ostracodes, barnacles, decapod crustaceans, mollusks, shark teeth, otoliths, and spores and other plant micro- fossils.
Gymnolaemata
 Cheilostomata - Candidae
Canda fossilis Waters 1881
 Cheilostomata - Cribrilinidae
Figularia ? sp. Jullien 1886
 Cheilostomata - Exechonellidae
 Cheilostomata - Bicellariellidae
Beania diademata n. sp. Cheetham 1972
 Cheilostomata - Scrupocellariidae
Menipea innocua Waters 1882
 Cheilostomata - Schizoporellidae
Chiastosella ? sp. Canu and Bassler 1934
 Cheilostomata - Spiroporinidae
Spiroporina kondoi n. sp. Cheetham 1972
Tessaradoma bifax Cheetham 1972
 Cheilostomata - Sertellidae
Reteporellina ? sp. Harmer 1933
 Cheilostomata - Tetraplariidae
Tetraplaria cf. turgida Tewari and Srivastava 1967
Tetraplaria simata n. sp. Cheetham 1972
 Cheilostomata - Bifaxariidae
Bifaxaria diaphyota n. sp. Cheetham 1972
Bifaxaria bryani Cheetham 1972