Also known as W 31 F
Where: Haiti (19.1° N, 72.7° W: paleocoordinates 19.1° N, 72.6° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)
• COMMENTS: Marine deposits are common along the coast where they form narrow fringes, a few places 1 or 2 km wide. The Quaternary deposits everywhere rest on the underlying formations unconformably. The unconformity is angular as well as erosional, even with the Pliocene and Miocene, but at some places where there are no Pliocene deposits the discordance with the Miocene deposits may be slight. At St Marc Bay, relatively wide terraces veeered with reef rock or coralliferous limestone cover the promontories north and south of the bay.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; poorly lithified, shelly/skeletal limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Woodring in 1920; reposited in the USNM
Collection methods: quarrying,
• COLLECTOR: W.P. Woodring, September 19, 1920
Primary reference: W. P. Woodring, J. S. Brown, and W.S. Burbank. 1924. Geology of the Republic of Haiti. 1-631 [A. Miller/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 75301: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 06.10.2007, edited by Wolfgang Kiessling
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Acropora cervicornis Lamarck 1816 stony coral | |
Porites furcata Lamarck 1816 stony coral | |
Siderastrea siderea Ellis and Solander 1786 stony coral | |
Solenastrea hyades Dana 1846 stony coral | |
Gastropoda | |
Hydrobia sp. Hartmann 1821 snail |