ammonites
E-1 (800-900 ft), Eniwetok Atol (Miocene of Marshall Islands)

Where: Marshall Islands (11.4° N, 162.4° E: paleocoordinates 8.5° N, 168.6° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From an undifferentiated lithostratigraphic unit. AGE: Late Miocene, on the basis of foraminiferal biostratigraphy. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: A composite list from several beds within this section of drill core, from 800-900 ft.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: unlithified, shelly/skeletal carbonate

• ENVIRONMENT: Carbonate facies. Shallow water, presumably reefal. No paleoenvironmental data presented.
• LITHOLOGY: Not stated, but presumably carbonate. LITHIFICATION: Unlithified, on the basis of figured specimens.

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by ONR and USGS in 1952; reposited in the USNM

Collection methods: core,

• COLLECTOR: Office of Naval Research and USGS, 1952. REPOSITORY: USNM.

Primary reference: H. S. Ladd. 1966. Chitons and Gastropods (Haliotidae through Adeorbidae) from Western Pacific Islands. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 531:1-98 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/J. Millet] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 77977: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 24.01.2008

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