Where: Fiji (17.2° S, 179.0° E: paleocoordinates 19.2° S, 178.7° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Ndalithoni Limestone Formation, Pliocene (5.3 - 2.6 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From Ndalithoni Limestone, which overlies the Koro Mbasanga volcanics (?Late Miocene) and is overlain by Recent alluvium and beach sands. AGE: Pliocene according to Ladd (1945), and stage "h" of Van der Vlerk. Assigned to a Pliocene age, although Ladd's assignment is founded on lyelian percentages. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Unknown position within unit.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: poorly lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: COLLECTOR: H.S. Ladd and E.J. Hoffmeister, presumably with others. REPOSITORY: Unknown, possibly the Bernice P. Bishop Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii, or the USNM.
Primary reference: H. S. Ladd and J. E. Hoffmeister. 1945. Geology of Lau, Fiji. Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin 181 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 68182: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 07.01.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea | |
Brissus latecarinatus Leske 1778 heart urchin |