Where: Haiti (18.2° N, 72.6° W: paleocoordinates 10.7° N, 61.6° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Coniacian (89.8 - 86.3 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: AGE: Early Senonian, on the basis of ammonite biostratigraphy; assigned by enterer to Coniacian on the basis of modern known age-ranges of constituent taxa. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within local section.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; poorly lithified, pebbly sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: cast, mold/impression
Collected by Woodring & Gardner
Collection methods: surface (float),
• COLLECTOR: W. Woodring & L. Gardner. REPOSITORY: USNM.
Primary reference: J. B. Reeside. 1947. Upper Cretaceous ammonites from Haiti. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 214(A):1-5 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 87735: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 23.03.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Ostrea sp. Linnaeus 1758 oyster | |
? Veneridae indet. Rafinesque 1815 venus clam | |
Cephalopoda | |
Parapuzosia sp. Nowak 1913 ammonite | |
Pachydiscus (Parapachydiscus) woodringi Reeside 1947 ammonite
Pachydiscus (Parapachydiscus) gardneri n. sp. Reeside 1947 ammonite | |
"Texanites cf. canaensis" = Peroniceras canaense
"Texanites cf. canaensis" = Peroniceras canaense Gerhardt 1897 ammonite | |
Paralenticeras sieversi Gerhardt 1897 ammonite | |
Baculites sp. Lamarck 1799 ammonite |