Where: Trinidad and Tobago (10.3° N, 61.4° W: paleocoordinates 9.8° N, 58.1° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: St Croix Limestone Member (Cipero Marl Formation), Burdigalian (20.4 - 16.0 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the "Lothinas Limestone" [=St Croix Limestone Mbr of the Cipero Marl]. AGE: Burdigalian on the basis of macrofossils biostratigraphy. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within these units
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified limestone
Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils
Collection methods: COLLECTORS: Multiple collectors including R. Rutsch and C.M.B. Caudri. REPOSITORY: Unknown.
Primary reference: R. M. Stainforth. 1948. Description, correlation, and paleoecology of Tertiary Cipero Marl, Trinidad, BWI. Bulletin of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists 32(7):1292-1330 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 93369: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 15.01.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Tubothalamea | |
Archaias sp. Montfort 1808 | |
unclassified | |
Bivalvia | |
"Limopsis (Pectunculina) subangularis" = Limopsis
"Limopsis (Pectunculina) subangularis" = Limopsis clam SUBSPECIES: Limopsis (Pectunculina) subangularis fischnechti
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"Propeamussium bronni" = Propeamussium duodecimlamellatum bronni
"Propeamussium bronni" = Propeamussium duodecimlamellatum bronni Mayer 1861 mud scallop SUBSPECIES: Propeamussium bronni pennyi
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Gastropoda | |
Clio pulcherrima snail
Clio cf. lavaysea snail | |
Sphaerocypraea wegeneri Schilder 1939 snail | |
"Jousseaumea joosi" = Jousseaumea joossi, Luria (Basilitrona) sanctesebastiani, Cypraeorbis perplexa
"Jousseaumea joosi" = Jousseaumea joossi Schilder 1939 cowry
Luria (Basilitrona) sanctesebastiani Maury 1920 cowry SUBSPECIES: Lurian (Basilitrona) sanctesebastiani adivinanzensis
Cypraeorbis perplexa Schilder 1939 cowry | |
"Typhis aff. alatus" = Typhina alata
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