Station 9591 (Pleistocene of Haiti)

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

• No precise environmental information reported in text.
• GENERAL LITHOLOGY: Coralliferous limestone. LITHIFICATION: Assumed to be partly lithified on the basis of facies description and age.

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

• COMPLETENESS: Includes bivalves, gastropods, echinomderms, corals and foraminifera. NOMENCLATURE: Exhaustive list of Mollusca. Other faunal groups (forams, corals, echinoderms) listed in text if present. Nomenclature antiquated (but should be precise as identified by W.P. Woodring and S.T. Stanton). Identifications of corals by T.W. Vaughan, Echinoderms by R.T. Jackson, and forams by W.P. Woodring.
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Acroporidae
Acropora cervicornis Lamarck 1816 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Poritidae
Porites furcata Lamarck 1816 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Siderastreidae
Siderastrea siderea Ellis and Solander 1786 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Faviidae
Solenastrea hyades Dana 1846 stony coral
Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Hydrobiidae
Hydrobia sp. Hartmann 1821 snail