Station 9484 (Pleistocene of Haiti)

Also known as B 115 F

Where: Haiti (18.5° N, 73.2° W: paleocoordinates 18.5° N, 73.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)

• 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.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified, fine-grained, shelly/skeletal, brown sandstone

• No precise environmental information reported in text.
• Fine-grained soft brown sand containing shells of molluscs.

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: quarrying,

• Collected by W.P. Woodring, November 22, 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 60884: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 26.05.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• 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.
Gastropoda
 Opisthobranchia - Bullidae
"Bullaria striata" = Bulla striata
"Bullaria striata" = Bulla striata Bruguiére 1792 snail
 Neritoidea - Neritidae
Neritina virginea Linnaeus 1758 snail
 Cerithioidea - Modulidae
"Modulus floridanus" = Modulus modulus
"Modulus floridanus" = Modulus modulus Linnaeus 1758 snail
 Cerithioidea - Cerithiidae
Cerithium sp., "Cerithium cf. nigrum" = Bittiolum alternatum
Cerithium sp. Bruguière 1789 cerith snail
"Cerithium cf. nigrum" = Bittiolum alternatum Say 1822 cerith snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Naticidae
Natica sp. Scopoli 1777 moon snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Caecidae
Caecum sp. Fleming 1813 snail
 Neogastropoda - Marginellidae
"Marginella nivosa" = Prunum nivosum
"Marginella nivosa" = Prunum nivosum Hinds 1844 margin shell
 Neogastropoda - Olividae
"Olivella jaspidea" = Jaspidella jaspidea
"Olivella jaspidea" = Jaspidella jaspidea Gmelin 1791 olive snail
 Trochoidea - Phasianellidae
"Phasianella affinis" = Eulithidium affine
"Phasianella affinis" = Eulithidium affine Adams 1850 snail
Bivalvia
 Cardiida - Veneridae
Chione cancellata Linnaeus 1767 venus clam
Spelt: C. cancella
 Cardiida - Ungulinidae
"Diplodonta cf. candeana" = Felaniella (Felaniella) candeana
"Diplodonta cf. candeana" = Felaniella (Felaniella) candeana d'Orbigny 1853 clam
 Cardiida - Tellinidae
Macoma sp. Leach 1819 tellin clam
 Pholadida - Corbulidae
Corbula sp. Bruguière 1789 clam
 Lucinida - Lucinidae
"Divaricella quadrisulcata" = Divalinga quadrisulcata d'Orbigny 1846 clam
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
"Chlamys (Aequipecten) sp." = Aequipecten
"Chlamys (Aequipecten) sp." = Aequipecten Fischer 1886 scallop
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostrea sp. Linnaeus 1758 oyster