Also known as NMB 12836, NMB 12903, NMB 12904, NMB 12905, NMB 12906, NMB 12907, NMB 13035

Where: Curacao, Netherlands Antilles (12.1° N, 68.8° W: paleocoordinates 10.8° N, 68.7° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Ceru di Cueba Formation, Bartonian (41.3 - 38.0 Ma)

• Collection derived from several horizons within the Ceru di Cueba Formation. Based on foraminifera the formation has been considered Late Eocene in age (Rutten (1928), Molengraaf (1929) and Rutten and Vermunt (1932), while Koch (1928, 1929) favors an Oligocene age. Rutsch favored a Late Eocene age and correlated the unit to the San Fernando beds of Vista Bella Quarry, Trinidad. Jung (1974) discounts an Oligocene age and suggests a middle or Late Eocene age. Foraminiferal evidence favors correlation to a late Middle Eocene age Santa Rita Formation of Venezuela. Jung (1974) suggests the Ceru di Cueba Formation should be correlated with the Ceru Mainsjie Formation, which would indicate a late Middle Eocene age. Assigned a Bartonian age on this basis.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified, pebbly, sandy limestone and poorly lithified, calcareous claystone

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the NMB

Collection methods: quarrying,

• Collections reposted in the Naturhistorisches Museum Basel (NMB). Collected by P. Jung (1971).

Primary reference: P. Jung. 1974. Eocene Mollusks from Curacao, West Indies. Verhandlungen der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Basel 84(1):483-500 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 60090: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 30.04.2006

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