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: Collecton code (BV) probably refers to 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 66816: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 17.10.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Chama involuta Guppy 1873 jewel box | |
"Protocardia gurabica" = Nemocardium (Lophocardium) gurabicum
"Protocardia gurabica" = Nemocardium (Lophocardium) gurabicum Maury 1917 cockle | |
Chlamys vulgaris, "Chlamys portoricensis" = Chlamys portoricoensis
Chlamys vulgaris scallop
"Chlamys portoricensis" = Chlamys portoricoensis Hubbard 1920 scallop SUBSPECIES: C. portoricensis reticularis
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Ostrea guppyi Woodring 1925 oyster | |
Gastropoda | |
Mitrella sp. Risso 1826 snail | |
Anthozoa | |
Acropora cf. saludensis Vaughan 1919 stony coral |