Where: Grenada (12.5° N, 61.4° W: paleocoordinates 12.2° N, 60.2° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Kendace Calcareous Silt Member (Belmont Formation), Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)
• The principal, nominal sedimentary units of the mid-Tertiary succession of Carriacou are the Belmont Formation (lower Miocene), Kendeace Formation (lower Miocene), Carriacou Formation (middle Miocene) and Grand Bay Formation (middle Miocene). The collection originates from the Kendace Calcareous Silt Member of the Belmont Fm. Jung (1971) assigns an Early Miocene age. The age is determined relative (underlying) to the Grand Bay Formation, as the other units are small and poorly preserved.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: deep-water; poorly lithified, calcareous siltstone
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the NMB
• Naturhistorisches Museum, Basel, Switzerland.
Primary reference: P. Jung. 1971. Fossil mollusks from Carriacou, West Indies. Bulletins of American Paleontology 61(269):1-262 [A. Miller/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 58644: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 17.02.2006, edited by Uta Merkel
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Scalina kendacensis Jung 1971 wentletrap | |
Crassispira sp. Swainson 1840 snail | |
Polinices ? prolacteus moon snail | |
"Bathygalea (Miogalea) famulans" = Echinophoria famulans
"Bathygalea (Miogalea) famulans" = Echinophoria famulans Jung 1971 snail | |
Distorsio mcgintyi Emerson and Puffer 1953 snail Subspecies: Distorsio (Rhysema) cf. decussata gatunensis
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"Ancilla (Eburna) ex gr. sp." = Eburna
"Ancilla (Eburna) ex gr. sp." = Eburna Lamarck 1801 snail | |
Mitra sp. Lamarck 1798 mitre shell | |
Cymatophos cf. glareosus Jung 1971 true whelk
Metula sp. Adams and Adams 1853 true whelk | |
Conus sp. Linnaeus 1758 cone shell | |
Polystira sp. Woodring 1928 turrid | |
Paraborsonia sp. Pilsbry 1922 snail | |
? Turcicula kendacensis Jung 1971 top snail | |
Cavolinia regulae, "Vaginella aff. undulata" = Edithinella undulata, Clio cf. pulcherrima, Clio kendacensis
Cavolinia regulae snail
"Vaginella aff. undulata" = Edithinella undulata Gabb 1873 snail
Clio cf. pulcherrima snail
Clio kendacensis Jung 1971 snail | |
Anthozoa | |
Fungiacyathus cf. symmetricus Pourtales 1871 stony coral | |
Trochocyathus cf. rawsoni stony coral |