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 66810: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 17.10.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Cerithium sp. Bruguière 1789 cerith snail | |
Turritella crocus turret shell | |
"Sconsia striata" = Sconsia grayi
| |
"Murex domingensis" = Chicoreus (Siratus) domingensis, "Fusus gilli" = Murex (Murex) gilli
"Murex domingensis" = Chicoreus (Siratus) domingensis Sowerby 1850 murex snail
"Fusus gilli" = Murex (Murex) gilli Maury 1910 murex snail | |
Olivella sp. Swainson 1831 olive snail | |
Phos sp. Monfort 1810 true whelk | |
Anachis mitrella snail | |
"Pleurotoma barretti" = Polystira barretti
| |
Bivalvia | |
Barbatia candida Helbling 1779 clam | |
Echinoidea | |
Cidaris anguillae pencil urchin | |
Anthozoa | |
Agaricia dominicensis Vaughan 1919 stony coral | |
Porites sp. Link 1807 stony coral | |
Stephanocoenia intersepta Esper 1795 stony coral | |
Acropora sp. Oken 1815 stony coral
Acropora panamensis Vaughan 1919 stony coral |