Where: Haiti (18.4° N, 72.7° W: paleocoordinates 18.4° N, 72.2° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Riviere Gauche Formation, Pliocene (5.3 - 2.6 Ma)
• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: From Riviere Gauche Formation, which presumably overlies Miocene strata of the Thomonde Foramtion. AGE: Stated in text as being from the Pliocene. Confirmed in other sources to be Pliocene (Martini and Bramlette 1963).
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marineunlithified
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: quarrying,
• COLLECTOR: Unknown collection (MS), probably not the author (J. Butterlin). REPOSITORY: Unknown repository.
Primary reference: J. Butterlin. 1960. Géologie générale et régionale de la République D'Haiti. Travaux et Mémoires de L'Institute des Hautes Estudes de L'Amérique Latine 6:1-190 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/S. Ávila]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 66814: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 17.10.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Dichocoenia tuberosa Duncan 1863 stony coral | |
"Heliastrea annularis" = Orbicella annularis
"Heliastrea annularis" = Orbicella annularis Ellis and Solander 1876 stony coral | |
Bivalvia | |
Chama ? involuta Guppy 1873 jewel box | |
Pteria sp. Scopoli 1777 pearl oyster | |
"Ostrea folioides" = Dendostrea frons, Ostrea guppyi
"Ostrea folioides" = Dendostrea frons Linnaeus 1758 oyster
Ostrea guppyi Woodring 1925 oyster | |
Anomia cf. indecisa jingle |