Where: Jamaica (18.0° N, 76.7° W: paleocoordinates 18.0° N, 75.9° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: August Town Formation, Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the August Town Fm, for which lithostratigraphic relations are not discussed. AGE: Late Miocene. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Composite list for formation.
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: COLLECTOR: Unknown. REPOSITORY: Unknown.
Primary reference: W. P. Woodring. 1973. Geology and paleontology of canal zone and adjoing parts of Panama: Description of Tertiary mollusks (additions to gastropods, scaphopods, pelecypods: Nuculidae to Malleidae). United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 306(E):453-539 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 96444: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 08.06.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
"Anadara (Grandiarca) grandis" = Larkinia grandis
"Anadara (Grandiarca) grandis" = Larkinia grandis Broderip and Sowerby 1829 ark SUBSPECIES: Anadara (Grandiarca) grandis colombiensis
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