IG 10 - Ile de la Gonave (Eocene) (Eocene of Haiti)

Where: Haiti (19.0° N, 72.3° W: paleocoordinates 17.3° N, 71.6° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Eocene (56.0 - 33.9 Ma)

• GENERAL STRATIGRAPHY: Stated in text as being from "l'Eocene, sous-Systeme non determine".

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine

• Unknown geologic data. Requires translation.
• Unknown lithologic data. Requires translation.

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: quarrying,

• Unknown collection repository. Requires translation.

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 61190: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 30.05.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Exhaustive for marcroinvertebrates, including coelenterata, brachiopoda, echinoidea, bivalvia and gastropoda.
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Astrocoeniidae
Astrocoenia incrustans Duncan 1863 stony coral
Stylocoenia sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1849 stony coral
Gastropoda
 Neotaenioglossa - Calyptraeidae
"Calyptraea aff. aperta" = Calyptraea (Trochita) aperta
"Calyptraea aff. aperta" = Calyptraea (Trochita) aperta Solander 1766 slipper shell
 Cerithioidea - Cerithiidae
Bittium kocneri cerith snail
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
Turritella aff. dutexata Harris 1895 turret shell
 Sorbeoconcha - Naticidae
Natica sp. Scopoli 1777 moon snail
 Neritoidea - Neritidae
Velates sp. Montfort 1810 snail
Bivalvia
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
 Lucinida - Lucinidae
Lucina sp. Bruguière 1797 clam
 Cardiida - Veneridae
"Tapes ex gr. tenerrima" = Callithaca tenerrima
"Tapes ex gr. tenerrima" = Callithaca tenerrima Carpenter 1857 venus clam
 Carditida - Carditidae
"Cardita parva" = Venericardia (Pleuromeris) parva Lea 1833 clam
Echinoidea
 Stomopneustoida - Stomechinidae
 Cassiduloida -