Where: Trinidad and Tobago (10.2° N, 61.5° W: paleocoordinates 9.2° N, 56.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• basin-level geographic resolution

When: Cipero Marl Formation, Late/Upper Oligocene (28.4 - 23.0 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Cipero Marl, which overlies the Hospital Hill Fm (Eocene), and is overlain by the Leguna Mbr of the Cruse Fm; lateral equivalent of the San Fernado Fm. AGE: Early Oligocene (or possibly Late Eocene) on the basis of large foraminiferal biostratigraphy. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From the Zone III of the Cipero Marl

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, concretionary marl

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: concretion

Collected by Rutsch

• COLLECTORS: R. Rutsch. 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 93367: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 15.01.2010

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