Where: Trinidad and Tobago (10.2° N, 61.6° W: paleocoordinates 10.2° N, 60.9° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Courbaril Member (Morne l'Enfer Formation), Early/Lower Pliocene (5.3 - 3.6 Ma)
• Collection is from the Courbaril Sand and Clay Member of the Upper Morne l'Enfer Formation. The Courbaril fauna is considered to be of early Pliocene age and is probably slightly older than the Matura fauna.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shoreface; poorly lithified sandstone and claystone
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the PRI, USNM
Collection methods: quarrying,
• All material descibed in this report is reposited in the Naturhistorisches Mueum, Basel, or the USNM. Additional material collection from this unit is found at PRI.
Primary reference: P. Jung. 1969. Miocene and Pliocene mollusks from Trinidad. Bulletins of American Paleontology 55(247):293-697 [A. Miller/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 60644: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 19.05.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Scaphopoda | |
Dentalium (Dentalium) divulgatum tusk shell | |
Gastropoda | |
Cerithium harrisi cerith snail | |
Chicoreus (Triplex) cornurectus, "Thais (Stramonita) cf. haemastoma" = Stramonita haemostoma, "Cymia brightoniana" = Cymia (Cymia) brightoniana
Chicoreus (Triplex) cornurectus Guppy 1876 murex snail
"Thais (Stramonita) cf. haemastoma" = Stramonita haemostoma Linnaeus 1767 murex snail
"Cymia brightoniana" = Cymia (Cymia) brightoniana Maury 1925 murex snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Trigoniocardia (Trigoniocardia) maturensis, "Laevicardium laevigatum" = Laevicardium serratum, "Trachycardium (Dallocardia) sanctidavidis" = Dallocardia
"Laevicardium laevigatum" = Laevicardium serratum Linnaeus 1758 cockle
"Trachycardium (Dallocardia) sanctidavidis" = Dallocardia cockle | |
Donax brightonensis clam | |
"Moerella (Moerella) elinguis" = Tellina (Moerella), Eurytellina punicea, Strigilla (Strigilla) carnaria
"Moerella (Moerella) elinguis" = Tellina (Moerella) tellin clam
Eurytellina punicea Born 1778 tellin clam
Strigilla (Strigilla) carnaria Linnaeus 1758 tellin clam | |
Semele purpurascens, Semele proficua, Semele aff. anteriocosta, Cumingia galbensis, Abra cf. aequalis
Semele purpurascens Gmelin 1791 clam
Semele proficua Pulteney 1799 clam
Semele aff. anteriocosta Vokes 1938 clam
Cumingia galbensis clam
Abra cf. aequalis Say 1822 abra | |
Cyclinella aff. tenuis, "Chione (Lirophora) sanctidavidis" = Lirophora, Dosinia (Dosinia) sp., Chione (Nioche) veatchiana
Cyclinella aff. tenuis Récluz 1852 venus clam
"Chione (Lirophora) sanctidavidis" = Lirophora venus clam
Dosinia (Dosinia) sp. Scopoli 1777 venus clam
Chione (Nioche) veatchiana Maury 1912 venus clam | |
Caryocorbula (Caryocorbula) sp. Gardner 1926 clam | |
"Carditamera (Bryssomera) aff. affinis" = Carditamera affinis
"Carditamera (Bryssomera) aff. affinis" = Carditamera affinis Sowerby 1823 clam | |
"Arca (aff. Arca) imbricata" = Lamarcka imbricata, Anadara (Cunearca) filicata
"Arca (aff. Arca) imbricata" = Lamarcka imbricata Bruguière 1789 clam | |
Brachidontes (Brachidontes) sp. Swainson 1840 mussel |