August Town [August Town Fm] (Miocene of Jamaica)

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

• ENVIRONMENT: Carbonate.
• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Unknown. LITHIFICATION: Unknown.

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

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Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Limited to taxa miscellaneously mentioned in text. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication with modern nomenclature and species-resolution identifications.
Bivalvia
 Arcida - Arcidae
"Anadara (Grandiarca) grandis" = Larkinia grandis
"Anadara (Grandiarca) grandis" = Larkinia grandis Broderip and Sowerby 1829 ark
SUBSPECIES: Anadara (Grandiarca) grandis colombiensis