Also known as Reef 642
Where: Anguilla (18.2° N, 63.1° W: paleocoordinates 18.1° N, 62.0° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Anguilla Formation, Burdigalian to Burdigalian (20.4 - 11.6 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; limestone and argillaceous limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by T. W. Vaughan in 1914; reposited in the USNM
Primary reference: C. W. Cooke. 1919. Tertiary mollusks from the Leeward Islands and Cuba. Contributions to the geology and paleontology of the West Indies. Carnegie Institution of Washington 105-156 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 179134: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 01.06.2016, edited by Matthew Clapham
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Malacostraca | |
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Gastropoda | |
"Ampullina (Ampullinopsis) spenceri" = Ampullinopsis spenceri, Ampullina anguillana
"Ampullina (Ampullinopsis) spenceri" = Ampullinopsis spenceri Cooke 1919 snail
Ampullina anguillana Cooke 1919 snail | |
Sinum chipolanum Dall 1892 moon snail | |
"Cypraea anguillana" = Macrocypraea anguillana
"Cypraea anguillana" = Macrocypraea anguillana Cooke 1919 cowry | |
Xenophora sp. Fischer von Waldheim 1807 carrier shell | |
Turritella crocus turret shell
Turritella anguillana n. sp. turret shell | |
Bivalvia | |
"Metis trinitaria" = Florimetis trinitaria
"Metis trinitaria" = Florimetis trinitaria Dall 1900 tellin clam | |
Spondylus bostrychites, Pecten perplexus, Pecten clevei, Pecten vaughani, Pecten gabbi, "Pecten crocus" = Dimarzipecten crocus
Spondylus bostrychites Guppy 1867 scallop
Pecten perplexus scallop
Pecten clevei scallop
Pecten vaughani Cooke 1919 scallop
Pecten gabbi Dall 1898 scallop
"Pecten crocus" = Dimarzipecten crocus Ward 1992 scallop | |
Pinna vaughani n. sp.
Pinna vaughani n. sp. oyster | |
Anthozoa | |
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"Orbicella costata" = Montastrea costata2, "Orbicella canalis" = Montastraea endothecata2, "Cyathomorpha roxboroughi" = Montastraea endothecata2
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