Collections of John B. Saunders
 
About John Baverstock Saunders (1928-2017)
Publications of John B. Saunders
 
 
 
 
 
 
Panama & Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Trinidad, Barbados, Grenada, Lesser Antilles- Carriacou, Tobago, Jamaica.
Venezuela: Isla Margarita, Araya Peninsula, Cubagua Island, Cabo Blanco.
Venezuela Basin, Grab- and dredge samples from the Caribbean Sea.
Alabama (USA).
Aquitaine (Parentis, France).
Switzerland.
DSDP/ODP: Accompanying collections of J.B. Saunders to the MRC.

 

 

 

Panama & Costa Rica:

1.) Collection of micropaleontology sample splits (washed residues) from the Panama Paleontology (PPP) Project (ex. bureau Jürg Meier. MK 13.1.2003).

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These washed residues are splits taken by Peter Jung in the framework of the PPP Project and were handed over to J.B. Saunders for further analysis. Identical splits were also given to W. Berggren and M.-P. Aubry (personal comm. M. Knappertsbusch and A. Heitz, 8 January 2003). The yellow labels in the samples have the Fundort No. of the NHM. The following list gives the range of the sample nambers and the provenance as found indicated with the samples.

NMB No. (Fundort No.) PJ (Peter Jung) field number Country of collection
17418 PJ 1736 Panama
17443 PJ 1761 Panama
17444 PJ 1762 Costa Rica
17475 PJ 1793 Costa Rica

17418-17440 are from Burica (. . .)
17440, 17441 are from Puerto Armellos (?), Panama
17444-17470 are maily from Limon area
17471-17476 from Nicoya
17477-17481 from Rio Banano
 
These samples are (partially) referenced in the Panama Paleontology Project volume of Collins, L.S. and Coates, A.G. (eds.) (1999) A Paleobiotic survey of Caribbean Faunas from the Neogene of the Isthmus of Panama. Bulletins of American Paleontology, No. 357, December 31, 1999. [see Appendix A an B - Maps, Sections - by A. Coates, on pages 287 to 348.
 
Important note: the sample numbers figured in these maps and sections are all PPP numbers. A translation from PPP numbers into PJ numbers or NMB numbers is given in the two attached lists, which was generated by Rene Panchaud.
 
 
 
 
 
Dominican Republic:
2.) Collections of the Dominican Republic (DR) Project:
For full and comprehensive documentation of the Dominican Republic Project see also Saunders et al., (1986) ["Red Book"]., Biju-Duval, B., Jung, P., and Saunders, J. (1980) [Excursion de Campo E - Rio Gurabo. Field Guide to the 9th Caribbean Geological Conference, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, pp. 140-165], and the field books of John Saunders.
 
See also collections of ants at NMB and a similar study of Baroni Urbani, C. (1980). The first fossil species of the Australian ant genus Leptomyrmex in amber from the Dominican Republic. Stuttgarter Beiträge für Naturkunde, Ser. B. No. 62, 10 p.
 
There is also a large collection of raw materials from the Dominican Republic.
 
 
 
 
 
2.1) Dominican Republic amber:
(For more information on Dominican amber collection please contact curator for invertebrate paleontology).
 
Cuts of amber from the Palo Quemado and La Toca mines, northern Dominican Republic, collected by John B. Saunders. There is a publication by Baroni-Urbani, C. and Saunders, J.B. (1982). The fauna of the Dominican Republic amber: the present status of knowledge. Transactions of the 9th Caribbean Geological Conference, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic 1980 (1982), vol. 1:213-223.
 
Note 1: The NMB holds a small collection of Dominican Republic amber with inclusions of insects, including paratypes of the ant Trachymyrmex primaevus and other study material to Baroni-Urbani, C. (1980). The first fossil species of the Australian ant genus Leptomyrmex in amber from the Dominican Republic (Amber collection Stuttgart: Hymenoptera, Formicidae. III: Leptomyrmicini). Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde, Serie B, No. 62, 10 p.
 
Note 2: The NMB amber collection holds also the holotype of Anolis dominicanus Rieppel (1980), a lizard enclosed in amber and described in Rieppel, O. (1980). Green anole in Dominican amber. Nature, vol. 286, 31 July 1980, pp. 486-487.
 
Standort (Baroni-Urbani and Saunders, 1982).
Standort (Dominican Republic amber collection at NMB, Baroni-Urbani, 1982; Rieppel, 1980).
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
2.2.) Amphistegina (larger foraminifera) from the Dominican Republic:
 
One tray holding Fema cells with picked specimens of:
 
Amphistegina guraboensis (NHB 15805), Rio Gurabo, Dominican Republic
Amphistegina rotundata (NHB 15837), Rio Gurabo, Dominican Republic
Amphistegina pulchra (NHB 15840), Rio Gurabo, Dominican Republic
Amphistegina angulata (NHB 15840), Rio Gurabo, Dominican Republic
Amphistegina bowdenensis (NHB 15851), Rio Gurabo, Dominican Republic
Amphistegina cf. taberana (NHB 15896), Rio Gurabo, Dominican Republic
Amphistegina canaensis (NHB 15900), Rio Gurabo, Dominican Republic
Amphistegina gibbosa (NHB 16095), Rio Gurabo, Dominican Republic
Asterigerina guraboensis (NHB 15914), Rio Gurabo, Dominican Republic
 
There was no further documentation with the material besides a brief mention to the occurrence of Amphisteginids the Gurabo Formation is given in Saunders, J.B., Jung, P., Geister, J. and Biju-Duval, B. (1982). The Neogene of the south flank of the Cibao Valley, Dominican Republic: A stratigraphic study. Transactions 9th Caribbean Geological Conference (Sto. Domingo, 1980), vol. 1, pp. 151-160.
 
See also Biju-Duval, B., Jung, P., and Saunders, J. (1980). Excursion de Campo E - Rio Gurabo. Field Guide to the 9th Caribbean Geological Conference, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, pp. 140-165.
 
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Trinidad, W.I.:
 
3.) Collections of Northern Trinidad formations and rocks:
A collection of Upper Jurassic (Tithonian) to Cretaceous formations and rocks from NW Trinidad, the Northern Range area and from NE Trinidad.
This collection has been integrated into H.G. Kugler's Stratigraphic Collection of Trinidad (see Part 1).
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
4.) Collection of Recent foraminifera and Thecamoebines from mangrove swamps and river estuarines of Trinidad [Ex office Jürg Meier, cabinet No. 247]:
 
 
 
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Four cardboard boxes with a fine collection of washed Recent sediments from Trinidad Rivers, with benthic foraminifers and good Thecamoebine samples, collected by John B. Saunders.
 
Samples are from Caroni River, North Coast Road, Burro River, Acono River, Toco Rd. Bridge, Maracas Bay River, Oropuche River, Arima River, Maracas River, Poole St. Joseph, Mayaro, No. 3 Dam at Pointe-à-Pierre, Hollis River, Rio Grande Rive, Blue River, Ortoire River, Baroni Swamp.
 
Study collection to Saunders, J.B. (1958). Recent foraminifera of magrove swamps and river estuaries and their fossil counterparts in Trinidad. Micropaleontology, vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 79-92.
 
Two trays "Fresh water" with slides (washed residues, picked individuals) of representative thecamoebines belonging to the publication of Bolli, H.M. and Saunders, J.B. (1954). Discussion of some Thecamoebina described errorneously as Foraminifera. Contributions of the Cushman Foundation for Foraminiferal Research, vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 45-52. This sub-collection contains slides with the genera Urnulina, Proteonina, Millettella, Lagunculina, Leptodermella, Proleonina. A printout of this publication is alongside the collection. For sample numbers on the larger tray (ex collns H.M. Bolli) see card catalogue of H.M. Bolli (Standort card catalogue). See also internal report of Bolli, H.M. and Saunders, J.B. (1953 ?). Note on Recent freshwater thecamoebines (test-bearing rhizopods) in Trinidad. "Bulletin No. 105", 4 pages, xerox copy with the collection).
 
Compare also with the publication Todd , R. and Brönnimann, P. (1957). Recent foraminifera and Thecamoebina from the eastern Gulf of Paria. Cushman Foundation for Foraminiferal Research Special Publication No. 3, 43 pp.
 
[No extra reference collection]. Study materials to Saunders, J.B. (1957). Trochamminidae and certain Lituolidae (foraminifera) from the Recent brackish-water sediments of Trinidad, British West Indies. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, vol. 134, No. 5, pp. 1-16, published by the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. The reference collection to this publication is deposited at Smithsonian Institution in Washington, U.S.A. However, there is study materials and notes at NMB, that may be related to this publication, see for example the study materials to Saunders, J.B. (1958) above, and materials to the "Washington Project" slides further below.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
4'.) Collection "An inventory of benthic smaller foraminifera in Trinidad, W.I." of Hans M. Bolli and J.B. Saunders (1958, unpublished).
 
See also the study collection, from which this collection was compiled.
 
This is a collection of zonal assemblage slides with benthic foraminifera from the Navet and San Fernando Formations (both Eocene), the Cipero and Brasso Formations (Oligocene to Miocene), and the Lengua Formation (Miocene) in Trinidad, B.W.I. A type-written manuscript text is with the collection (in duplicate). The collection was found together with the materials of John Saunders and therefore is deposited together with the collections from him. See also Barr, K.W. and Saunders, J.B. (1968). An outline of the geology of Trinidad. Transactions of the Fourth Caribbean Geological Conference. 28th March - 12th April, 1965. Port-of-Spain, Trinidad & Tobago. Caribbean Printers, Arima, Trinidad & Tobago, 1968. For a newer interpretation of the Cipero through Brasso paleoenvironments refer to Samsoondar, S., Wilson, B., and Farfan, P. (2020); Samsoondar, S. and Wilson, B. (2020); and Samsoondar, S. and Wilson, B. (2021).
 
The material consists of a picked slide collection and washed residues in vials and boxes, many of them collected from the original zonal type localities given in Loeblich et al. (1957), Bolli (1957b, c and d), and in many T.L.L. private reports. It is part of a series of collections representing faunas of Lower Cretaceous to Recent age and were prepared over the years as an inventory of the principal collections of Trinidad benthic foraminifera at the T.L.L. geological laboratory in Pointe-à-Pierre by H.M. Bolli and J.B. Saunders. These collections were probably compiled in context with the USNM 215 Bulletin volume of Loeblich and Tappan et al. (1957), but may also be considered as a foundation to the book (and collections) about benthic foraminifera in Trinidad (Bolli, H.M., Beckmann, J.P., and Saunders, J.B., 1997), that appeared some 39 years later.
 
See especially also the type and reference collections of benthic foraminifera in Trinidad to Beckmann, J.P. (1955, 1956, and 1957) from the Gautier, Naparima Hill and Guayaguayare Formations; the Lizard Springs Formation; and the Navet and San Fernando Formations, respectively in the collections of Jean-Pierre Beckmann.
 
Alongside the collection deposited is a xeroxed extract of Beckmann, J.P. (1957). Foraminiferal faunas of Trinidad type localities. Part 7: The benthonic foraminifera of the Navet and San Fernando Formations. G.P.S. Report No. 395, Part 7. TTOC (Trinidad & Tobago Oil Company) Geological Laboratory, Pointe-à-Pierre, February 1957 (unpublished; full report see Kugler Archive Box 54). With handwritten annotations and assiggnments of foraminiferal species to the old alphanumeric foraminiferal zonal names of TLL and levels to core samples.
 
 
See also in the Archive H.G. Kugler from Trinidad, Box No. 77 (in red folder): Stainforth, R.M. (1945). Trinidad Foraminiferal Type Samples. Report #3. Cruse and Forest Formations. Unpublished Geological Report No. 272 (T.L.L.).
 
Numerous additional benthic forms from Trinidad were already previously described and are deposited at the U.S. National Museum in Washington, or at the NMB. They include the papers by Cushman and Renz (1946) on the Lizard Springs fauna, Cushman and Renz (1948) on the Navet and San Fernando formation faunas, Cushman and Stainforth (1945) about the Cipero formation, or Bartenstein and co-authors about benthic foraminifera from the Cretaceous, and Kaminski et al. (1988) for Guayaguayare through Lizard Springs (Maastrichtian-Eocene) benthic faunas from Trinidad. Furthermore, extended foraminiferal collections from Trinidad exist in the collections of Hans Bolli, in the stratigraphic collection of Trinidad from Hans G. Kugler, and in the raw material collection from foraminiferal type localities in Trinidad, all deposited at the NMB.
 
Several related collections are also deposited in the collections of the NMB, for example the collection of NVP (North Venezuelan Petroleum Company) with benthic foraminiferal faunas of the Miocene Agua Salada Group of Falcon, western Venezuela (collections Renz, H.H., 1948). Another publication of interest dealing with Venezuelan benthic foraminifera and of interest for Trinidad is that by Guillaume, Bolli, and Beckmann (1972).
 
 
Many of these samples were applied to established the Cretaceous and Cenozoic tropical planktonic foraminiferal zonation, as described in Bolli (1957b, c and d), in many later publications, and which culminated in Plankton Stratigraphy (Bolli, Perch-Nielsen, and Saunders, 1985) and in the benthics volume of Bolli, H.M., Beckmann, J.P., and Saunders, J.B., (1997). A brief description is deposited with the collection. See also the later review of King, D.J., Wade, B.S., Liska, R.D., Miller, C.G. (2020). with respect to Oligo-Miocene planktonic foraminiferal stratigraphy mentioning standard zonal samples from J.B. Saunders from Trinidad.
 
For more information consult also the unpublished reports on Trinand foraminifera type samples by Renz, H.H. (1943a and b) and Renz, H.H. and Stainforth, R.M. (1944). The planktic foraminiferal zonal type localities for the present collection are summarized and documented in Saunders, J.B. (1965). Excursion No. 1, Manzanilla Coast. Fourth Caribbean Geological Conference, Trinidad 1965, pp. 427-442, and in Saunders, J.B. and Cater, M. (1968). Excursion No. 3. Paleontological collecting trip. In: Saunders, J.B. (Editor) (1968). Transactions of the Fourth Caribbean Geological Conference. 28th March - 12th April, 1965. Port-of-Spain, Trinidad & Tobago. Caribbean Printers, Arima, Trinidad & Tobago, pp. 433-434.
 
 
 
 
Taxon range charts and taxon numbering codes:
Charts of Trinidad foraminiferal species, arranged by genera exist, that correlate the stratigraphic ranges of benthic taxa with the Trinidad Formations and showing their subdivision into planktic foraminiferal zones. This collection of range charts appeared as Bolli, H.M. and Saunders, J.B. (1958). Stratigraphic distribution of smaller Foraminifera in Trinidad, Cretaceous to Recent. The associated cross-correlation of T.L.L. taxon number codes with the scientific names by Bolli, H.M. (1948-1955), and a summary list is also deposited with the collection. Cross-reference of Trinidad (TLL/Texaco) and Venezuela (NVP Falcon) foraminiferal collections number systems versus scientific names, which are both deposited at the NMB.
 
See at this place especially the Cross-correlations of T.L.L. zonal names for Trinidad and Overview of type-samples from Trinidad land sections used for development of T.L.L. zonal schemes and later schemes for tropical plankton foraminiferal zonations as compiled by Michael Knappertsbusch from collections held at NMB.
Also see also copy of list "Zonal markers for Treatise (from U.S.N.M. Bull 215)", original deposited in the Kugler archive, Box 53 (Correspondence with Hans Bolli).
 
Assemblage slides included in the collection (planktic foraminiferal zones according to Bolli (1957b, c and d) unless otherwise indicated. See Saunders and Cater (1968), and Cater, C.M. (1966) for locations, and McCabe et al. (1993) for a biostratigraphic revision of Eocene and Oligocene type localities from Trinidad). For species identification lists to Cretaceous zonal assemblage slides refer to (Bolli, H.M.1958. G.P.S. (private) report No. 395).
 
Tray # 1, Lengua Formation (Middle Miocene):
KR 23425, JS 2446 (Globorotalia menardii zone, KR 23425=zonal type sample)
KR 23422, Barrackpore well#327, core at 1762-84 feet (KR 23422=Globorotalia mayeri zone, zonal type sample)
 
 
Tray # 2, Cipero Formation, Early to Middle Miocene):
Bo 355a (Globorotalia fohsi robusta zone)
JS 32, JS 2514 (JS 32=Globorotalia fohsi lobata zone, zonal type sample)
K 9399, JS 1567 (Globorotalia fohsi fohsi zone)
Bo 202 (Globorotalia fohsi barisanensis zone, zonal type sample)
JS 2596, JS 2513 (probably Praeporbulina glomerosa of Bolli et al., 1985)
Bo 267, Bo 287 (Catapsydrax dissimilis zone; Bo 267 from zonal type sample)
Hg 8577A (Catapsydrax dissimilis zone/Globorotalia kugleri zone)
 
 
Tray # 3, Brasso Formation (Early Miocene):
JS 2438 (Globigerinatella insueta zone ?)
 
JS 2606, JS 2607, JS 2616 (no indication of a zone)
 
 
Tray #4, Cipero and Nariva Formations, Middle Oligocene to Early Miocene):
K9397 (Catapsydrax dissimilis zone, zonal type sample)
JS 1399 (zonal type sample zone, Nariva Formation)
Bo 291A (Globigerina ciperoensis ciperoensis zone, zonal type sample)
JS 20 (Globorotalia opima opima zone, zonal type sample)
SE 4599 (Globigerina cf. venezuelana Hedberg zone, or probably G. opima opima zone)
Bo 312A (Globigerina cf. venezuelana Hedberg zone; between Globorotalia opima opima and Globigerina ampliapertura zones)
JS 2327, Bo 314A (Globigerina ampliapertura zone; JS 2327 from new type-locality)
 
 
Tray #5, Cipero Formation:
Charuma well #1, core 16 at 8070 to 8080 feet, sample at 8080 feet (no indication of a zone)
JS 2385 (without indication of zone)
JS 3333 (without indication of a zone)
 
 
Tray # 6, San Fernando Formation (Late Eocene):
K 9613, K 3741 (Globorotalia cerro-azulensis zone)
KR 25684 (Globorotalia cocoaensis zone, zonal type sample)
 
HGK 8523-8525 (zone not indicated on slides)
 
 
Tray # 7, Navet Formation (Middle to Late Eocene):
Bo 536, K 8829 (Globigerapsis semiinvoluta zone)
JS 1413 (Truncorotaloides rohri zone)
HK 408 (Porticulasphaera mexicana zone=Orbulinoides beckmanni zone)
Ks 233 (Globorotalia lehneri zone, zonal type sample)
Rz 476 (Globigerapsis kugleri zone, zonal type sample)
Rz 336 (Hantkenina aragonensis zone, zonal type sample)
Bo 536, K 8829
 
 
Tray # 8, Assemblage slides Planktonic foraminifera from Trinidad:
This are 3 formational assemlage slides, which are duplicates to those from the collection of Bolli, H.M. (1957b, c, and d) containing planktonic foraminiferal faunas from the Paleocene-Lower Eocene Lizard Springs Formation; the Eocene Navet and San Fernando Formations; and the Lengua and Cipero Formations. Xerox copies of identification lists to each slide are with the slides. The originals to these lists are deposited in the collections to Bolli, H.H. (1957a, b, c).
 
 
 
 
Also deposited is a collection of washed residues in glass vials collected by J. Saunders, that are not referenced in the papers of Bolli (1957b, c and d), that do also not occur in the stratigraphic collections of H.G. Kugler from Trinidad, and from which there was hitherto no further information found, but which are mentioned for here for historical reasons (see JS sample list). However, many of the samples collected by Saunders are also indicated on the various Governmental cadastral sheets of Trinidad, that are deposited at the NMB in combination with the collections of H.G. Kugler.
 
With the collection deposited is a list of Trinidad zonal samples, and a list of Cretaceous to Quaternary formations, and foraminiferal zones, with the names of T.L.L. zonal species and their corresponding scientific names.
 
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4''.) Study collection to "An inventory of benthic smaller foraminifera in Trinidad, W.I." of Hans M. Bolli and J.B. Saunders (1958, unpublished).
 
For collection "An inventory of benthic smaller foraminifera in Trinidad, W.I." of Hans M. Bolli and J.B. Saunders (1958, unpublished) see above.

This is an extended working collection comprising several subcollections (drawers) of washed residues and picked foraminiferal preparations or assemblages from the Paleogene through Pliocene Formations in Trinidad, which was presumably used for compilation of the above mentioned collection of Inventory of Benthonic smaller Foraminifera. Unfortunately, the collection came without detailed info to individual sub-collections or slides, and information must be gathered from the info given on the slides and the existing geological literature from Trinidad, parts 3 and 4 of the Treatise on the Geology of Trinidad, from reports or maps in the Kugler archive, or from John Saunders' fieldbook notes.
Note: For a more recent interpretation of the Cipero through Brasso paleoenvironments refer to Samsoondar, S., Wilson, B., and Farfan, P. (2020); Samsoondar, S. and Wilson, B. (2020); and Samsoondar, S. and Wilson, B. (2021).

[Ex drawer 4] Upper Miocene-Pliocene (Sringvale Formation to Talparo Formation):
Picked benthic foraminifera from the upper Springvale Formation (Chickland [Melajo] Clay and Gransaull Clay, and from Pliocene Talparo Formation (Matura Beds). Samples include JS 67 (Matura Formation Type locality) and samples from Dominion Mahaica well #1 (Talparo Formation). For locations consult map enclosure #26 in Kugler, Hans G. (1996). Treatise on the Geology of Trinidad. Part 3 - Detailed geological Maps and sections.
Ex Box 6 of 12.

 
Standort [Ex drawer 4]
 

 

[Ex drawer 13] Miocene (Cipero Formation to Lengua Formation):
Picked benthic foraminifera and washed residues mainly from the western end of Central Range, e.g. Concord calcareous silt members from Concord Quarry, and from Ditrupa-Beds at coastal exposures close to Pointe-à-Pierre, see map enclosure #7 in Kugler, Hans G. (1996). Treatise on the Geology of Trinidad. Part 3 - Detailed geological Maps and sections. Type samples (for example Bo 202) from the Cipero Formation are from the Cipero Coast, see map enclosure #13, Detailed geological Maps and sections in part 3 of the Treatise on the Geology of Trinidad. Note that reference has to be made to the lateral change of the reefal facies of the Tamana Formation into the foraminiferal calcareous clays of the Lengua Formation which become dominant to the south of the Central Range (cit. Kugler 2001, p. 262 ff.).
Some samples are from the Biche Quarry (eastern Central Range), consult map enclosure #8 in above mentioned Maps and Sections.
Ex Box 3 of 12.

Standort [Ex drawer 13]

 
 
 
 

 

 

 

 

[Ex drawer 12] Miocene-Pliocene from the central part of Central Range and its coastal end at Manzanilla Coast (E-Trinidad), Brasso Formation through Talparo Formation:
Washed residues from the Talparo Formation, Springvale Formation, Manzanilla Formation (San José Calcareous Silt, Montserrat Glauconitic Sandstone) and Telemaque sandstone from the eastern Central Range between Manzanilla coast and Point Noir. See especially map enclosure no. 21 ("Type section of the Manzanilla Formation") in Kugler, Hans G. (1996). Treatise on the Geology of Trinidad. Part 3 - Detailed geological Maps and sections.
From the central part of Central Range (Gransaull-Los Atajos area) there are foraminiferal preparations from the San José Formation and the Tamana Formation, both collected along the Cascade River (see Treatise, part 3, map enclosure No. 25, Geologic map of Gransaull-Los Atajos Area in Treatise on the Geology of Trinidad. Part 3 - Detailed geological Maps and sections). Samples from the Basso Formation were collected along the Los Atajos River, and material from the Telemaque Formation/Montserrat Formation come from the San José River (west of Brasso, see map enclosure No. 20, "Geologic map of Brasso area in Treatise on the Geology of Trinidad". Part 3 - Detailed geological Maps and sections).
For sampling locations see enclosed Trinidad map sheets with John Saunders sample numbers (JS), Kugler sample numbers (K), and/or Colin Campbell sample numbers (Cb) indicated, e.g.,

    Map #55 (Central Range at eastern coast of Trinidad, Point Lobin), samples JS 1372-1395, JS 4145-4146;
    Map #56 (Central Range at eastern Coast of Trinidad, Point Noir-Point Paloma);
    Map #57 (Central Range at eastern Coast of Trinidad, Point Salou), samples JS 821-843;
    Map #58 (Central Range at eastern coast of Trinidad, Manzanilla Bay), samples JS 4229;
    No number (Central Range, area between Biche and Sangre Grande), samples JS 1804-1817.

Relevant literature: Saunders, J.B. (1968). Excursion No. 1, Manzanilla Coast. Fourth Caribbean Geological Conference, Trinidad, pp. 427-442, and Bolli, H.M. (1957b, c and d).
Ex Box 3 of 12.
 
Standort [Ex drawer 12]
 
 
 
 
 
[Drawer 3] Eocene-Oligocene/Early Miocene (Navet Formation through Cipero Formation):
Collection of picked foraminiferal genus slides and assemblages in Fema-cells from the Navet and San Fernando Formations (Eocene) and the Cipero Formation (Oligocene-Miocene). Trays 1 through 10 with genus slides. The annotation referring on trays 5 and 6 to Bath Cliff (Barbados) is unclear.
Note (Schimmelgefährdung): Due to probable moisture exposure prior to arrival of material some mold was observed in one slide (Bolivinids II from San Fernando Formation). It is now kept separately in a closed plastic box.
Ex Box 2 of 12.
 
Standort [Ex Drawer 3]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Eingang 23. November 2018, ex Box 3 of 12 [drawer 11 and 12]; ex Box 3 of 12 [drawer 4]; ex Box 2 of 12 [drawer 8] ; ex Box 3 of 12 [drawer 13] ; ex Box 6 of 12 [drawer 4]; ex Box 8 of 12 [drawer 11].
 
Standort [Ex drawer 11, left, right]
 
 
[Drawer 10, left side] Stratigraphic zonation schemes; building on taxonomic classification/catalogue for benthic smaller foraminifera from Trinidad; "Drawings L.B. Isham" [Washington Project]:
 
Seven trays with Fema-cells with benthic foraminiferal specimens, some of which were obviously foreseen or prepared for drafting by scientific illustrator Lawrence B. Isham (1922-2011) at National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington (see obituary under https://gnsi.membercklicks.net/index.php?option=com_dailyplanetblog&view=entry&category=in-depth-article&id=1:in-memoriam-larry-isham.
 
Note: Lawrence and Patricia Isham prepared the foraminiferal illustrations in Loeblich, Tappan, et al. 1957. USNM Bulletin 215, see acknowledgements in Bolli, H.M., Loeblich, A.R. and Tappan, H. (1957). Planktonic foraminiferal families Hantkeninidae, Orbulinidae, Globorotaliidae and Globotruncanidae. USNM Bull. 215:3-50).
 
Enclosed with the material are envelopes with xerox prints of drawings/illustrations of various species and from different collaborators of J.B. Saunders. In this context see especially the correspondence files of Hans Kugler with Hans Bolli in the Kugler archive, Box #53, (giving full range chart and TLL zonal schemes, and a remark/recommendation for preparing illustrations by Isham for the plates to Loeblich and Tappan (1957). Studies in Foraminifera, U.S.N.M. Bull. 215. Possibly, the above mentioned collection of Fema-cells represent the collection, from where specimens for illustrations in U.S.N.M. Bull. 215 were selected on.
One of the envelopes labelled as "Xeroxes of Trinidad benthics (scanning pictures)" contains xeroxed illustrations together with unpublished T.L.L. foraminiferal zonal codes to specimens illustrated on the plates in Bolli, Beckmann, and Saunders (1994).
 
Ex Box 9 of 12. Eingang 23 Nov. 2018.
 
Standort [Ex drawer 10, left]
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
[Drawer 10, right side] Stratigraphic zonation schemes; building on taxonomic classification/catalogue for benthic smaller foraminifera from Trinidad; "Washington Project" slides:
 
One box containing Fema-cells with picked foraminifers. Numbers on slides refer to J. Saunders (J.S.) numbers.
The "Washington Project" slides were possibly working materials of John Saunders to prepare reference slides to Saunders (1957), and for preparing the illustrations and plates to Loeblich and Tappan (1957). Studies in Foraminifera, U.S.N.M. Bull. 215, and which were drawn by Lawrence and Patricia Isham (see further above).
 
Standort [Ex drawer 10, right]
 
 

 

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
4'''.) John Saunders' work on mud-volcanism in Trinidad:
 
Collection to Higgins, G.E. and Saunders, J.B. (1967). Report on 1964 Chatham Mud Island, Erin Bay, Trinidad, West Indies. The American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, vol. 51, No. 1, pp. 55-64. (a first announcement was also published in the Transactions of the Fouth Caribbean Geological Conference. Held at Port-of-Spain, Trinidad & Tobago, 2th March - 12 April 1965, p. 14). One tray with sample residues 1 to 4 from Chatham Mud Island 1964. See also photo-collection on rising Chatham Island in the archive of John Saunders. Also see extended Trinidad photo collection of H.G. Kugler and J.B. Saunders showing photos from mud volcanism in Trinidad.
 
 
Related literature:
Higgins, G.E. and Saunders, J.B. (1974). Mud volcanoes-their nature and origin. In: Jung, P., Bolli, H.M., Panchaud, R., Saunders, J.B., Schaefer, H., and Wiedenmayer, F. (1974). Contributions to the Geology and Paleobiology of the Caribbean and Adjacent Areas. Dedicated to the 80th Birthday of Hans G. Kugler. Verhandlungen der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft von Basel, vol. 84, No. 1, pp. 1-520.
See also enclosed maps with JS sample locations from St. Michel and Lendorf mud volcanoes in green folder of Archive John Saunders (Standort1).
 
Barr, K.W. (1953). The mud volcanoes of Trinidad. Caribbean Quarterly, vol. 3(2), p. 80-85.
 
Kugler, H.G. (1968). Sedimentary volcanism. In Transactions of the Fouth Caribbean Geological Conference. Held at Port-of-Spain, Trinidad & Tobago, 2th March - 12 April 1965, pp. 11-13.
 
Deville, E., Battani, A., Griboulard, R., Guerlais, S., Herbin, J.P., Houzay, J.P., Müller, C., and Prinzhofer, A. (2003). The origin and processes of mud volcanism: new insights from Trinidad. In Van Rensberger, P., Hillis, R.R., Maltman, A.J., and Morley, C.K. (eds). Subsurface sediment Mobilization. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 216:475-490.
 
Standort collection.
Standort1 Archive John Saunders, green folder with fotos.
Standort2 Foto Archive J.B. Saunders & H.G. Kugler, metal-cabinet.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
4''''.) John Saunders' late works in Northern Trinidad (Northern Range, Patos Island):
 
See
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
4'''''.) D.O.L. collection and Forest Reserve (F.R.), Trinidad:
Unspecified foraminiferal collection containing eighteen cardboard trays with picked benthic foraminifera in Fema-cells from Forest Reserve (F.R.) well # 1030, from the D.O.L. (Dominion Oil Ltd.) collection from the eastern coast of Trinidad, and from numerous other locations in Central- to South Trinidad. No further information and no sample list was accompanying the material, but the samples need to be cross-checked with maps & sections given in Part 3 of the Treatise on the Geology of Trinidad.
 
Recent materials:
Trays with washed residues in Fema-cells from Recent deposits from Mayaro Bay (E-coast of Trinidad), Salybia Bay (Toco, NE Trinidad), Maracas Bay and Cyril Bay (N-coast of Trinidad), Monos Island (NW Trinidad), and the coast at Pointe-à-Pierre. Also included is a box containing Fema-cells with washed residues also from coastal sites around Trinidad (Yarra River area, Las Cuevas Bay, Maracas Bay, Cyril Bay, all northern coast; La Tinta Bay on Chacachacare Island and Gasparee, and the Chaguaramas Bay from the NW coast; Monkey Point in the Gulf of Paria, and Pointe-à-Pierre along the western coast; the Islote area and Erin River on the SW coast; and Pt. Galeota, Guayaguayare on the SE coast) (Ex Box 3 of 12). In addition, there is one box (D.O.L. collection from Dominion Oil Ltd) with recent residues from the east-coast of Trinidad (ex box 6 of 12).
 
For studies in the Gulf of Paria possibly refer to the report Saunders, J.B. (1961). The Biostratigraphy of the Gulf of Paria. Part 1 (maps), Part II (text): Stratigraphic and Biofacies Summaries for individual wells. [POSA, GOPA, DOL, TNA & TNA/BP(T)]. Unpublished G.R.S. Report No. 464. Deposited in the archive of J.B. Saunders (Regal Archivraum Weisser Bär).
 
One Box with Fema-cells containing washed residues from Northern Trinidad (NW to NE Trinidad): Series of Fema-cells from Lady Young Road (samples B 9526-B 9590 possibly from Ken Barr ???); Fema-cells from N-Trinidad: Blanchisseuse Road, Shark River, Toco area and Paria Road; series of Fema-cells from NW Trinidad, Port-of-Spain: Champs Fleurs, Francois Valley, Laventille Road; Series of Fema-cells from the Toco area, Petit Trou, NE Trinidad (samples JS 2070-2090, JS 2199-2224; JS 2846-2847).
For comparison of northern facies there are also slides from Central Range (TNA Mt. Harris # 1 well) and from SW Trinidad (ABM #72 well), Brighton-Pitch Lake-Morne l'Enfer area) in that box. For location of these wells see part 3 of Treatise on the Geology of Trinidad, enclosure #32 for TNA Mt. Harris well# 1, and enclosure # 29 for ABM #72 well. For SW-Trinidad (Morne l'Enfer area, Guapo Bay) see especially Saunders, J.B. and Kennedy, J.E. (1968).
 
Compare also with geological section across Brighton and Vessigny Fields (1:5000) by Poole, W.G. and Jimdar, S. (1957) with many AB wells, and with Notes by H.G. Kugler. Also compare with Waite (1947). Geological map Southern Trinidad, 1:25000, Sheet D-2, showing Pitch-Lake area [both deposited in Archive H.G. Kugler, Box 70, folder Pitch Lake].
 
Explanations: ABM=Antilles Brighton Ltd Marine section, AB=Antilles Brighton Ltd land sections, and ABS=Antilles Brighton Ltd land-submarine sections. (Materials ex boxes 6 and 10 of 12, Eingang from 23. November 2018).
 
 
One box with samples from Forest Reserve wells FR#670 and FR#691 (Forest and Cruse Formations, Miocene). Well FR#670 was important for the definition of Cruse and Forest formations, see Stainforth, R.M. (1945). Trinidad foraminiferal type samples, T.L.L. private Report #3, Geol. Rep. No. 272, deposited in Box 77 of the archive of H.G. Kugler). For position of FR#670 well see part 3 of Treatise on the Geology of Trinidad, map enclosure 23 and 29. Additional samples (labelled as Hg, from Higgins) are from the "Gres" (Globigerinoides acme from Salt Springs Road (Salt Springs, Guayaguayare area, SW Trinidad, see docu about Salt Springs alongside material and part 3 of Treatise on the Geology of Trinidad, map enclosure 6).
 
The material served to establish the general stratigraphic framework of Trinidad.
 
Note - Schimmelgefährdung:
In the past the material was probably exposed to some humidity as several slides showed signs of molds. Samples with heavy molds (foraminifera not attacked) were repackaged in closed plastic boxes alongside the other material, and contaminated cardboard trays were replaced.
 
Eingang: John B. Saunders legacy mailing from 23. November 2018.
 
Standort
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
4''''''.) Benthic foraminifera from California (U.S.A.) type localities:
This is a small but fine study collection of benthic foraminiferal assemblage slides and residues collected/composed by John B. Saunders during field excursions to various type sections in California (U.S.A.). Samples come from:
 
See also entries in Fieldbook No. 2A of J.B. Saunders.
 
Eingang: John B. Saunders legacy mailing from 23. November 2018.
 
Standort
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
4'''''''.) Trinidad: Residues of zonal samples and Dredge samples [study collection]:
This is a considerable study collection of washed residues (in glass vials and paper bags) from various places in Trinidad (few materials were also Tobago, Curacao, and Dredge samples) collected by John B. Saunders (J.S. numbers), Hans M. Bolli (Bo numbers), Hans G. Kugler (HGK samples) and others. They were used to establish the local foraminiferal zonal scheme of Trinidad and are complementary to those collections assembled by Hans M. Bolli, Hans G. Kugler, and others while in Trinidad. Unfortunately, there is no sample list with the material, but primary information can be found in the field books of John Saunders. Some Dredge samples, for example, are documented in field book No. 7 of Saunders. Much information can also be found in the card catalogue to the stratigraphic samples collection of Hans Bolli.
 
Alongside with the material is a copy of an older (1950's) T.L.L. foraminiferal zonal scheme. Also for comparison, there is a copy of the more recent T.T.I. foraminiferal zonal scheme compiled by John Frampton (late 1980's).
 
Eingang: John B. Saunders legacy mailing from 23. November 2018, ex box 1 of 12.
 
Standort
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Barbados, West Indies:
5.) Reference collection to Saunders, J.B., Bernoulli, D., Müller-Merz, E., Oberhänsli, H., Perch-Nielsen, K., Riedel, W.R., Sanfilippo, A., and Torrini, R. (1984). Bath Cliff Section, Barbados, West Indies. TSL 102.
 
and to Torrini, R.E. Jr., Mattioli, G.S., Speed, R.C., and Saunders, J.B. (1982). Oceanic beds at Bath, Barbados: Depositional and Tectonic History (unpublished manuscript 1982).
 
Map Windward Islands
 
 
Standort
Standorte raw material collections: Jura Keller, K1, Spengler Park
 
 
Bath Cliff:
The Bath Cliff section in Barbados is one of the most complete marine Eocene-Oligocene transitions exposed on land. This collection comprises washed residues from Bath Cliff section, which are the reference materials to Saunders, J.B., Bernoulli, D., Müller-Merz, E., Oberhänsli, H., Perch-Nielsen, K., Riedel, W.R., Sanfilippo, A., and Torrini, R. (1984). Stratigraphy to the late Middle Eocene to Early Oligocene in the Bath Cliff section, Barbados, West Indies. Micropaleontology, vol. 30, No. 4, pp. 390-425. Several slides with picked foraminifers from selected BC horizons and with JS numbers.

The collection comprises washed residues from BC 1 through BC 131 (in the above publication Bath Cliff samples range from BC 32 through 95), and samples JS 4270, JS 4322, JS 4331, JS 4334. For a general overview of locations from where important Barbados materials were collected see simplified map, but also refer to Donovan, K.D. (2005).

There is a wooden cabinet holding trays with picked specimens from the Bath Cliff section, that are illustrated in the paper of Saunders et al. (1984). Standort. The same cabinet also holds trays with other picked specimen slides from Barbados (Bissex Hill area, NU samples from Robert C. Speed, see further below).

For information about the JS numbers illustrated in Saunders et al. (1984) refer to section 12 further below. The same samples were described in Torrini, R.E. Jr., Mattioli, G.S., Speed, R.C., and Saunders, J.B. (1982). Oceanic beds at Bath, Barbados: Depositional and Tectonic History (unpublished manuscript 1982).

 
Enclosed documents:
 
 
 
Bath Cliff-, Conset-, and Sealy Hall sample collections, resampling from 1982:
The Bath Cliff section (BC sample numbers) were re-sampled in 1982 (see also raw material collection in Spengler Park, Geo Lager 4, J14 / 36 ff), with sample numbers ranging from BC 18-82 through BC 37-82, and BC-78-82 to BC-102-82. Samples C-1-82 through C-15-82, are from the Conset Bay section (C-samples) from year 1982. Sample locations are documented on sheet "Geologic Map and Cross Sections Bath Cliffs, Barbados, West Indies", annotated with Bath Cliff samples 1982. On a second map (spot map) from the Conset Bay area there are additional sample sites indicated from Bath (BC-series, years 1981 and 19982), Conset (C-series, year 1982) and Sealy Hall (SH-Series, year 1982, see also letter from Rudy Torrini in collection with samples from Windy ridge furthert below).
Furthermore, there are drawings, maps and profiles on the contact between Senn's Mudflow (mélange) and the Pelagite (all enclosed in folder "Re-sampling at Bath, 1982).
 
A small number of samples (labelled as ABS-82-42, ABS-82-43, ABS-82-44, and ABS-82-45) were collected by Annika Sanfilippo in 1982 in the Bath Cliff section. They are stratigraphically located between samples BC 79 and BC 80.
 
Additional material to Saunders et al. (1984) are rock sample cuts taken from the collection of A. Senn, including samples from the Bath Cliff section taken by Saunders & Daniel Bernoulli in 1981/82: BC-35S, BC-41S, BC-47S, BC-49S, BC-53-S, BC-56S, BC-60-S, BC-62S, BC-67S, BC 70-S, BC-72-S, BC-73-S, BC-74-S, BC-75S, BC-76S, BC-80C, BC84S, BC-88S. From a series of these samples and from other samples there are scanning electron- and light micrograph prints (two piles of photographs, e.g. BC-35S, BC-41S, BC-47-S, BC-48S, BC-49S, BC 53S, BC-56S, BC-60S, BC-61S, BC-62S, BC-67S, BC-70S, BC-73S, BC-74S, BC-75S, BC-80S, or DB5060, 5069, 5070), which are deposited in this collection as well.
 
Especially from samples BC-73S, BC-80C, and BC-84S x-ray diffractograms were produced on decarbonated samples (role with difractograms included).
 
Other rock cut samples (prepared for thin sections) were taken from the collections of Alfred Senn (samples beginning with S) including S34c, S62, S72a, S75, S75s, S87, S91, S94, S98, S111, S158, S160a, S186, S192, S226, S362, S369, S372, S1004c, S1043, S1121c, or from other person's NU127 (Conset Bay shore), NU128, RS1, Sp172b (R. Speed samples), 1173, K2711 (H.G. Kugler sample), JS 4287 (John B. Saunders sample), BV1, and a piece of ash bed from Oceanic Formation, Mt. Hillaby river. See especially correspondence in Box #49 of Kugler archive, folder 1925-1951, letter from H.G. Kugler to T.W. Vaughan from 3rd December 1938.
 
 
 
 
Smear-slide collection to Saunders et al. (1984) [transfer from GPI Uni Basel to NMB 11.12.2018]:
One box containing smear-slides from Bath Cliff samples, Gays Cove, and from the Oceanic Formation, prepared by Daniel Bernoulli. They include the following numbers:
S1295 b;
 
From Bath Cliff section (S denotes smear-slide): BC-35S, BC-41S, BC-47S, BC-49S, BC-53S, BC-60S, BC-62S, BC-67S, BC-70S, BC-73S, BC-74S, BC-75S, BC-76S, BC-80S, BC-84S;
 
Samples taken by Daniel Bernoulli (see also List with information about thin sections from Daniel Bernoulli)
(Bath Cliff section, see enclosed sheet with stratigraphic positions in section): DB 5014, DB 5028, DB 5053, DB 5064, DB 5073, DB 5075, DB 5076, DB 5077, DB 5078, DB 5079, DB 5080, DB 5081, DB 5052, DB 5083, DB 5084, DB 5087, DB 5088, DB 5089, DB 5090, DB 5091, DB 5092, DB 5093, DB 5094, DB 5095, DB 5097, DB 5098, DB 5099, DB 5100, DB 5101, DB 5102, DB 5103, DB 5104.
 
(Bissex Hill, Scotland Formation, 1978. For reference refer to fieldbook notes of Dan Bernoulli): DB 4974, DB 4990, DB 4992, DB 4995, DB 4996, DB 4997, DB 4999, DB 5000, DB 5001, DB 5002, DB 5003, DB 5042.
 
 
 
Standort
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

High JS numbers (JS 4170 through JS 4334):

Standort

Washed residues with high JS numbers (JS 4170 through JS 4334) from Bath Cliff section, that are illustraded in Saunders et al. (1984). Documentation: See enclosed Pre-print of the paper to Micropaleontology in Novmber 1983 with samples demarkated (red point, cross or X on the samples). The localities from where Samples JS 3902 and JS 3903 come could not be found. See also J.B. Saunder's fieldbook notes in the archive.

 

 

 
Additional reports and publications:
A. Senn (1939). Paleogene of Barbados and its bearings on the history and structure of the Antillen-Caribbean region.
 
De Cizancourt, M. (1948a). Nummulithes de l'ile de Barbade (Petits Antilles).
 
Beckmann, J.-P. (1953). Die Foraminiferen der Oceanic Formation (Eozän-Oligozän) von Barbados, Kl. Antillen.
 
Saunders, J.B. and Cordey, W.G. (1965). The biostratigraphy of the Oceanic Formation in the Bath Cliff Section Barbados (refers to J.B. Saunders field numbers JS 1042 through JS 1077, to Martin-Kaye's field numbers MK 7506 to MK 7514, and to several field numbers of Alfred Senn. (Copy of paper enclosed with the material).
 
Caudri, C.M.B. (1972). The larger foraminifera of the Scotland District of Barbados. Eclogae geol. Helv., 65(1):221-234.
 
Kugler, H.G., Jung, P., and Saunders, J.B. (1984). The Joes River Formation of Barbados and its fauna. Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae, vol. 77, No. 3, pp. 675-705.
 
Roth, P.H. (1970). Oligocene calcareous nannoplankton biostratigraphy. Diss. ETH Zürich No. 4488. (with John Saunders samples from the Bath Cliff section).
 
Wood, K.C., Miller, K.G., and Lohmann, G.P. (1985). Middle Eocene to Oligocene benthic foraminifera from the Oceanic Formation, Barbados. Micropaleontology, vol. 31, No. 2, pp. 181-197. (A copy of the article is enclosed).
 
Sanfilippo, A, Riedel, W.R., Glass, B.P., and Kyte, F.T. (1985). Late Eocene microtektites and radiolarian extinctions on Barbados (from Bath Cliff section and Gay's Cove section). The paper gives reference to Bath Cliff samples BC 31 to BC 68.
 
Donovan, K.D. (2005). The Geology of Barbados: a field guide. Caribbean Journal of Earth Science, 38:21-33.
 
Private reports #1 to 24 of H.G. Kugler on Barbados geology.
 
Archive Peter Jung to Barbados field excursion sites (with maps showing route, stops and sampling numbers during field excursion to Barbados at 4th Caribbean Geological Conference to Barbados in April 1965).
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
6.) Collection Saunders and Cordey (1965), and Saunders (1968), field trip guide, Barbados:
 
Standort
 
This is the reference material to Saunders, J.B. and Cordey, W.G. (1965), from the Bath and Codrington area, Conset Bay, Barbados. The biostratigraphy of the Oceanic Formation in the Bath Cliff section Barbados. Washed residues (and fwe bulk sediment samples) of JS 1064, JS 1065, JS 1066, JS 1067, JS 1068, JS 1069, JS 1070, JS 1071, JS 1072, and
JS 1854, JS 1855, JS 1856, JS 1857, JS 1858.
Note: Red labelled numbers indicate samples that were collected in parallel by Peter Jung during the excursion to Barbados during the 4th Caribbean Geological Congress, Port-of-Spain (1965) (see documentation and raw material collection from Barbados, Raw material collections at Spengler Park).
 
Enclosed documentation:
 
 
 
 
 

7.) Collection from Gay's Cove section, Barbados, West Indies:

Standort

A collection of washed residues and bulk sediments from Gay's Cove (see map), Barbados, West Indies.

Sample numbers include GC 1 to GC 11 (GC=Gay's Cove), and JS 1599, JS 1851, JS 1852A, JS 1852B, JS 1852C, JS 1852D, JS 1853, JS 1885B, JS 1886.
Note: Red labelled numbers indicate samples that were collected in parallel by Peter Jung during the excursion to Barbados during the 4th Caribbean Geological Congress, Port-of-Spain (1965) (see documentation and raw material collection from Barbados, Raw material collections at Spengler Park).
 
Documentation enclosed:
Letter from R. Torrini (1984) with a correlation scheme enclosed for Gay's Cove-, Pico Teneriffe-, Congor Point-, Bath Cliffs- and Windi Ridge-sections, including sampe positions. (Abbreviations for sample numbers: GC=Gay's Cove, PT=Pico Teneriffe, CP=Congor point, BC=Bath Cliff, WR=Windy Ridge).
A sketch from Gay's Cove area, and stratigraphic columns for Gay's Cove (GC) samples in year 1982, Congor Point (CP) samples in year 1983, and Pico Teneriffe (PT) samples in year 1982.
 
Other literature about Gay's Cove (not included in the above samples):
See Sanfilippo, A, Riedel, W.R., Glass, B.P., and Kyte, F.T. (1985). Late Eocene microtektites and radiolarian extinctions on Barbados.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

8.) Samples from Windy Ridge, Barbados, West Indies:

Standort

 

Washed residues from Windy Ridge (see map), Barbados, West Indies, collected in 1982.
Sample numbers include WR-15-82, WR-17-82, WR-19-82, WR-21-82, WR-23-82, WR-25-82, and WR-27-82.
 
Enclosed is a a letter from Rudy Torrini (1982), with a text about oceanic nappes lithology and stratigraphy, a hand-drawn sampling map from Windy Ridge, and a stratigraphic column showing the levels of WR samples.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

9.) Barbados samples collected by Robert C. Speed (sampling years 1979 to 1988, NU samples), Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60201, U.S.A.:

 
About Robert C. Speed (1933-2003).
 
For Robert C. Speed's work see especially the Northwestern University, Libraries / Archival and manuscript collections:
 
See also:
Digital maps: Speed, R.C., author, with Speed, C., Sedlock, R., and Andreas, L., editors, 2019, . Geologic Map of Barbados: Volume II: 2p., https://doi.org/10.1130.Speed_Map-vol2. (map files available from Geological Society of America Digital Maps).

Standort

 

This is a large collection of washed residues from the Scotland District, Barbados, West Indies, collected by Robert Speed, Dept. of Geology, Northwestern University, Illinois.

Samples come from the

Sample series collected in different years:

 
See also wooden cabinet holding trays with picked sample slides from NU samples (Standort).
 
Documentation enclosed:
 

 

10.) Collns J.B. Saunders: Samples collected by Robert C. Speed in 1978, from the Scotland District of Barbados (Chalky Mountain, Mt. Hillaby, Mt. All, Joes River)

Standort

The Scotland District of Barbados (Chalky Mountain, Springfield, Scotland River, Bissex Hill, Mount Hillaby) is one of the first areas, from where microfossils have been scientifically studied and described. Especially Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg (1873), one of the "fathers of micropaleontology" described radiolaria from these locations in his Mikrogeologische Studien (see page 106 ff., Chapter IV, Uebersicht des Polycystinen-Gebirges von Barbados), which makes these truly historical sites for micropaleontologists. The collections deposited at the NMB contain washed residues from samples RS-2 to RS-7 collected by Robert C. Speed in 1978, from the Scotland District of Barbados (Chalky Mountain, Mt. Hillaby [Morgan Lewis Beds], Mt. All, Joes River).

A hand-drawn sample locality map, a sample list and notes on the material are enclosed with the samples.

A few samples collected by J.B. Saunders (JS 3410, from Mt. Hillaby; JS 3411, probably also from Mt. Hillaby; and a sample JS 3483, JS 3445, (unknown locality), JS 3776 (from Cambridge) are enclosed here.

 

Literature from Robert C. Speed related to the structural geology of Barbados (but without indications of the above samples):
Speed, R.C. (1981). Geology of Barbados: Implications for an accretionary origin. Oceanologica Acta, Supp. 1, v. 4, pp. 259-265.
 
Speed, R.C. and Larue, D.K. (1982). Barbados architecture and implications for accretion. J. Geophys. Res., vol. 85, pp. 3633-3643.
 
Speed, R.C. (1983). Structure of the accretionary complex of Barbados, I: Chalky Mount: Geol. Soc. America Bull., v. 94, p. 92-116.
 
Saunders, J.B. (1979). Field Trip I(J) Barbados. In: Field Guide Trinidad, Tobago, Barbados, July 1979. 4th Latin American Geological Congress, pp. 71-88. Published by Key Caribbean Publications, Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago. With panoramic view to Scotland District seen from Mt. Hillaby. Standort: Copy deposited with the material.
 

Ehrenberg, C.G. (1873). Mikrogeologische Studien über das kleinste Leben der Meeres-Tiefgründe aller Zonen und dessen geologischen Einfluss. Abhandlungen der Königliche Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin. 226 p., 30 plates.

 

 

11.) Collns J.B. Saunders: Samples collected by John B. Saunders in 1979, mostly from the Scotland District of Barbados and type collection #58 to Kugler, Jung and Saunders (1984)

Standort

Washed residues and few bulk samples of the JS 1600 series and JS 1800 series (see list), mostly from the Scotland District of Barbados (Bissex Hill, Cambridge and Cambridge Quarry, Springfield, Mt. Hillaby, Hillaby River, and Bath Cliff). No map is available with precise sample locations, but see fieldbook notes from J.B. Saunders, and map illustrated in Kugler, Jung, and Saunders (1984); the figured samples JS 1616 and JS 1617 are not included here.

Enclosed: A copy of Kugler, Jung, and Saunders (1984). The Joes River Formation of Barbados and its fauna. Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae, vol. 77, No. 3, pp. 675-705. With original photographic plates.

 

 

 

 

 

 

11.1.) Reference (type collection #58) to Kugler, Jung and Saunders (1984). The Joes River Formation of Barbados and its fauna. Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae, vol. 77, No. 3, pp. 675-705. One prepared multiple field slide with the hypotypes of agglutinated foraminifera of diverse genera illustrated in Kugler, Jung, and Saunders (1984). For more materials to this study see further above under 11.).
Standort

 

 

 

 

 

12.) Other collns of J.B. Saunders:

12.a) Collns J.B. Saunders: Samples from Morgan Lewis well # 1, Barbados, W.I.

Standort

A large collection of washed residues in yellow sleeves labelled with "Barbados, Morgan Lewis # 1", and with a core level indicated. Morgan Lewis 1 is a deep well at the NE coast of Barbados, at 13°17'N/59°34.5'W (see map shown in Saunders, J.B. (1979) and Figure 10.5 in Speed, R. (1994). Sample levels range from 320 to 14800, at intervals of 10 (most probably these indications are in feet). A xerox copy of the Barbados article is deposited with the collection. A xerox copy of a geological spot-map from A. Senn showing the vicinity of Morgan Lewis is also deposited here. The original oversized map shown in figure 5 in Saunders, J.B. (1979) is deposited in the maps archive, Lista unit 16, drawer 06 (1606) under "Original field sheets and spot maps of Dr. A. Senn on Scotland District of Barbados.

 

12.b) Collns J.B. Saunders: Oceanic Formation, samples of unclear provenance:

Standort

A box containing 9 vials with washed residues from the Oceanic Formation, Barbados, collected September 21, 1983 by Pam Smith from beneath Coral Cliff above GlenBurrie. Labelled as 9-21-OC36 through 46.

 

12.c) Collns J.B. Saunders: BH7, samples of unknown provenance:

Standort

A small collection of washed residues in glass vials, labelled with BH7 (=??? Boarded Hall well #7 ???, see map), numbers most probably indicating various core levels. No further information was found about these samples. The original box containing the samples is labelled as Barbados). There are several localities in Barbados with the name Boarded Hall. In this case it is perhaps Boarded Hall located between Mt. Hillaby and Spa House in the Scotland District.

A second set of washed residues labelled "BH7" was received many years later with the John Saunders legacy sending from 23. November 2018, again without any further information. They probably belong to the above mentioned set of BH7 samples from Barbados. Sample levels (in cm, or in meters ??) indicated on the tubes from this second set range from 179, 184, 189, 192, 196, 207, 214, 218, 222, 227, 233, 248, 266, 284, 299, 312, 329, 349, 400, 430, 440, 460, 520, 534, 550, 580, 610, 640, 670, 700, 760, 790, 820, 850, 880, 910, 940, 970, 1000, 1030, 1060, 1090, 1120, 1150, 1180, 1240, 1240, 1270, 1300, to 1330. A brief microscopic check of samples reveals a subrecent to Pleistocene/Pliocene age and from shallow/neritic waters (BH 7-227 with with Globigerinoides ruber, G. calida, many benthics; BH 7-460 with G. ruber; BH 7-1330 poorly preserved but with rare Globorotalia crassaformis). From this perspective the above mentioned - suspected - Boarded Hall provenance of the BH 7 samples may be questionable . . .

 

 

13.) Recent and subrecent planktic foraminifers from Barbados: See collections H.M.Bolli/Barbados Project/Colln. Paul A. Thayer.

 

 

 

 

Switzerland:
13.) Collns J.B. Saunders, samples from Switzerland, collected during the 9th European Micropaleontological colloquium, 1965)

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A collection of picked specimens in fema cells (6 trays) from various places visited during the 9th European Micropaleontological colloquium (1965). Sample numbers range from JS1665 through JS 1763. No further documentation.

Enclosed:
Schaub, H. and Luterbacher, H. (1965). Neuere Daten zur mikropaläontologischen Forschung in der Schweiz. Bull. Ver. Schweiz. Petrol.-Geol. u. Ing., vol. 31, No. 81, 200 p.

 

 

 

Lesser Antilles. Grenada, West Indies:
14.) Collection Saunders et al. (1985). Late Eocene deep-water clastics in Grenada, West Indies.
 
Map Grenada, Tufton Hall Formation, map Windward Islands
 
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A collection of sediments and washed & picked residues from locations illustrated in Saunders, J.B., Bernoulli, D., and Martin-Kaye, P.A.H. (1985). Late Eocene deep-water clastics in Grenada, West Indies. Samples JS 3811, JS 3812, JS 3813, JS 3814, and DB 5105, and a larger number of samples from Peter H.A. Martin-Kaye (M.K. field numbers): MK 6517 through MK 6525, MK 6639 through MK 6709, MK 6711 through 6741, MK 6742 through 6772, MK 6794, MK 6841 through MK 6887, MK 7335, MK 7318 through MK 7388.

The following documents are enclosed with the collection:

 

 

 

 

Lesser Antilles, Carriacou:

14a.) Small study collection to Speed, R.C., Smith-Horowitz, P.L., Perch-Nielsen, K. v. S., Saunders, J.B., and Sanfilippo, A.S. (1993). Southern Lesser Antilles Platform: Pre-Miocene Stratigraphy, Structure, and Tectonic Evolution. Geological Society of America Special Paper 277, 98 p.

Seven trays with mostly thin sections, from Carriacou and Union islands. Only few sample numbers are referenced also in the article, see tables pp. 36 ff. MK=field numbers of Martin Kaye, JS=field numbers from John B. Saunders.

Sample No's (some with letters for different sections from same rock specimen):
Car90-8b, Car90-9, Car90-34, Car90-46b, Car?10-12-6m, Car?10-17-3, slickenslide, MK5938 (from Grenada), Union 86-1, JS1, JS2, JS 7, JS 10.
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Tobago, West Indies:
 
15.) Reference collection to Saunders, J.B. and Müller-Merz, E. (1985). The age of the Rockly Bay Formation, Tobago. Transactions of the 4th Latin American Geological Congress (Trindiad and Tobago), held at Port-of-Spain, Trinidad & Tobago, 7th-15th July 1979, Volume 1, Book 5 (Paleontology, Macropaleontology, Micropaleontology, Palynology), pp. 339-344. Published in 1985.
 
Collection of foraminiferal preparations (picked and washed residues) in Fema-Cells. Samples numbers include JS 1957 (from Canoe Bay).
 
In addition there are samples JS 3881, JS 3882, JS 3883, JS 3885, and K9786 (from Rockly Bay). Also JS 3819, JS 3820, JS 3821, JS 3822, JS 3823, JS 3824, JS 3825, JS 3826, JS 3827, JS 3828, JS 3829, JS 3830, JS 3831, JS 3832, JS 3833, JS 3834, JS 3837, JS 3838, JS 3839, JS 3840.
 
Alongside is a manuscript to Saunders, J.B. and Müller-Merz (1985), which relates to samples JS 1957 (from Canoe Bay), and JS 3881, JS 3882, JS 3883, JS 3885, and K9786 (from Rockly Bay). See also fieldbook notes of John Saunders in Fieldbook #8, page 185.
 
 
 
Selected related literature:
Rowley, K.C. (1979). Field Trips C and F, Tobago. In: Field Guide Trinidad, Tobago, Barbados, July 1979. 4th Latin American Geological Congress, pp. 71-88. Published by Key Caribbean Publications, Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago, pp. 65-70. Xerox copy deposited alongside collection.
 
Jackson, T.A. and Donovan, S.K. (1994) (=a comprehensive introduction to the geology of Tobago, xerox copy alongside collection).
 
Sum, L.S., Wilson, B., Moonan, X. (2015). Micropaleontological reconnaissance of the Rockly bay Formation, Tobago. Poster presentation given at AAPG Latin America and Caribbean Region, 20th Caribbean Geological Conference 2015, Port-of-Spain, Trinidad & Tobago, West Indies, May 17-22, 2015. Search and Discovery Article #51175 (2015). Printout deposited with collection.
 
Documents include also a text downloaded from the Geological Survey of Trinidad and Tobago (http://www.gstt.org/) on the mid Pliocene Balanus beds of Tobago from where the NMB holds collections of Balanus specimens from Tobago (see Kugler collections from Tobago). The above paper is with this collection.
 
Eingang: John B. Saunders legacy mailing from 23. November 2018 (ex Box 7 of 12).
 
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15a.) Saunders, J.B. (1957). Recent samples from Buccoo Reef (southwestern Tobago, W.I.)
 
A small collection of Recent reef sands from Buccoo Reef (southwestern Tobago), in Fema cells, and collected by J. Saunders in february 1957 (about 20 samples). A xerox copy of a map illustrating the sampling locations (scale 1:10'000) is deposited with the collection (the original map drawing is deposited in room W 105 together with other maps from Tobago). See also the introduction to the geology of Tobago in Jackson, T.A. and Donovan, S.K. (1985).
 
There are also large format aerial photographs (scale 1:2500) from the Buccoo coral reef, which are deposited in the archive of geological maps in Room 1/-102, Jurakeller, Lista 11 (drawer aerial photographs from Trinidad and Tobago). STANDORT
 
Samples include nos JS 678, JS 679, JS 680, JS 681, JS 682, JS 683, JS 684, JS 685, JS 686, JS 687, JS 688, JS 689, JS 690, JS 691, JS 692, JS 693, JS 694, JS 695, JS 696, JS 697.
 
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15b.) Saunders, J.B. Recent samples from Heron Reef (Great Barrier Reef, Australia)
 
A small but fine collection of Recent reef sands and benthic foraminifera in Fema cells from Heron Reef (12° 26' S/151° 51' E), which is within the Great Barrier Reef.
 
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Venezuela:
 
16a.) Isla Margarita (Venezuela),Washed residues, unpublished materials.
For comparison see also the publication of Caudri, C.M.B. (1974). The larger foraminifera of Punta Mosquito, Margarita Island, Venezuela.
 
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Washed residues kept in fema-cells, but no reference to documentation is given. JS numbers include:
 
JS 1531, JS 1532, JS 1533, JS 1534, JS 1536, JS 1537, JS 1538, JS 1539, JS 1540, JS 1544, JS 1545, JS 1546, JS 1547.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
16b.) Araya Peninsula (Venezuela)
 
Washed residues, unpublished materials from John B. Saunders, including samples
JS 1501, JS 1502, JS 1503, JS 1504, JS 1505, JS 1506, JS 1507, JS 1508, JS 1509, JS 1510, JS 1511, JS 1512, JS 1513, JS 1514, JS 1515, JS 1516, JS 1517, JS 1518, JS 1519, JS 1520, JS 1521, JS 1523
 
Unfortunately, no detailed information about provenance or age was found about this material (by 19 February 2014). However, these samples were eventually collected as companion material to the studies Bermudez and Bolli (1969). Consideraciones sobre los sedimentos del Mioceno medio al Reciente de las costas central y oriental de Venezuela. Tercera parte. Los foraminiferos planctonicos. Boletin de Geologia, vol. X, No. 20, pp. 137-223; there is also mention to Venezuelan coastal locations in the foraminiferal study of Bolli, H. (1070). The foraminifera of Sites 23-31, Leg 4. Init. Rep. DSDP, vol. 4, pp. 577-643; see especially p. 597ff (correlation to Venezuelan locations). See also the collections of Hans Bolli.
 
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16b.) Cubagua Island (Venezuela)
 
Washed residues, unpublished materials from John B. Saunders, including samples
JS 1525, JS 1526, JS 1527, JS 1528, JS 1529, JS 1530 and JS 1578, JS 1579, JS 1580, JS 1581, JS 1582, JS 1583, JS 1584
 
Unfortunately, no detailed information about provenance or age was found about this material (by 19 February 2014). However, these samples were eventually collected as companion material to the studies Bermudez and Bolli (1969). Consideraciones sobre los sedimentos del Mioceno medio al Reciente de las costas central y oriental de Venezuela. Tercera parte. Los foraminiferos planctonicos. Boletin de Geologia, vol. X, No. 20, pp. 137-223; there is also mention to Venezuelan coastal locations in the foraminiferal study of Bolli, H. (1070). The foraminifera of Sites 23-31, Leg 4. Init. Rep. DSDP, vol. 4, pp. 577-643; see especially p. 597ff (correlation to Venezuelan locations). See also the collections of Hans Bolli about Cubagua I and II wells.
 
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16c.) Cabo Blanca (Venezuela)
 
Washed residues, unpublished materials from John B. Saunders, including samples
JS 1548, JS 1549, JS 1550, JS 1551, JS 1552, JS 1553, JS 1554, JS 1555, JS 1556, JS 1557, JS 1558, JS 1559, JS 1560, JS 1561
 
JS 1567 (=Gr 7c locality composite sample)
 
Unfortunately, no detailed information about provenance or age was found about this material (by 19 February 2014). However, these samples were eventually collected as companion material to the studies Bermudez and Bolli (1969). Consideraciones sobre los sedimentos del Mioceno medio al Reciente de las costas central y oriental de Venezuela. Tercera parte. Los foraminiferos planctonicos. Boletin de Geologia, vol. X, No. 20, pp. 137-223; there is also mention to Venezuelan coastal locations in the foraminiferal study of Bolli, H. (1070). The foraminifera of Sites 23-31, Leg 4. Init. Rep. DSDP, vol. 4, pp. 577-643; see especially p. 597ff (correlation to Venezuelan locations). See also the collections of Hans Bolli about Cabo Blanca
 
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16d.) Grab- and Dredge samples, test cores (eastern and central Caribbean Sea ?)
 
Washed residues, unpublished materials from John B. Saunders, including samples
JS 2472 (grab station), JS 2476 (grab station), JS 2477 (grab station), JS 2478 (grab station), JS 2480 (dredge station G-2B), JS 2483 (dredge station G-4B), JS 2484 (Test core G-4C), JS 2485 (G-5), JS 2486 (G-6), JS 2487 (G-7), JS 2488 (G-8), JS 2501 (dredge station G-21).
 
No further information was found (by 20 february 2014) about the provenance or age this materials so far; most probably these samples were collected during site-surveys of either DSDP Leg 4 or, even more, during DSDP Leg 15 (for example exploring Pleistocene cover at Site 147 ?) when J.B. Saunders was abord R/V Glomar Challenger.
 
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Jamaica:
 
17.) Washed residues, unpublished materials.
 
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Washed residues from various locations in Jamaica, kept in Fema-cells, but no reference to documentation could be found.
 
Locations are Petersfield Gap section, St. Anns Gt. River, Spring Mount, Sunderland, Irish Town, Buff Bay (Manchianeal beds), May Pen, Frank Field, Veniella Shale, Bowden Wharf.
 
JS numbers include:
 
JS563, JS564, JS565, JS566, JS567, JS568, JS569, JS570, JS571, JS572, JS573, JS 574, JS 733, JS 734, JS572, JS1187, JS1188, JS1190, JS1193, JS1194, JS1193, JS1197, JS1198, JS1199, JS1200, JS1201, JS1202, JS1203, JS1204, JS1205, JS1206, JS1207, JS1208, JS1209, JS1210, JS1211, JS1212, JS1213, JS1215, JS1217.
 
Note:
See also
- Collection J.B.Saunders from Jamaica (UNOCAL)
- Collection Joos and Strasser, 1931 (Miocene Bowden Formation of Jamaica).
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
18.) UNOCAL Miocene to Pliocene reference collection from the Buff Bay Section, Jamaica.
 
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During his visit in Brea, California, in May of 1992 Dr. H. Bolli and Dr. L. Tjalsma discussed the possibility of sending a split of UNOCAL's Buff Bay samples to the Basel Museum as a reference collection for this famous Neogene site.
Samples were collected in spring 1987 along a new road cut at Buff Bay, Jamaica, by a group of scientists from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (W.A. Berggren), Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory (M. van Fossen, D.V. Kent, K.G. Miller), the University of Lyon (M.-P. Aubry), and UNOCAL (G. Jones, C. Stuart, R.C. Tjalsma), under the guidance of E. Robinson (Florida International University) (see map).
 
A major summary about the Upper Cretaceous to Neogene biostratigraphy of Jamaica is given in Wright, R.M. and Robinson, E. (1993). Biostratigraphy of Jamaica. Geol. Soc. America Memoir 182.
 
The Basel collection comprises splits from 120 washed residues (samples 87-J-165--->230, and BB-1--->66) from the Bowden Shell Beds Section (Pliocene), where the classical Bowden Formation is exposed (type locality of Woodring 1925, 1928, and Robinson, 1969), and the Miocene to Pliocene Buff Bay Section (Robinson, 1969; Eva and Robinson, 1981; Liska, 1985).
 
A documentation is with the materials in form of correspondence with L.R.C. Tjalsma (UNOCAL Science & Technology Division, Brea, California), sample lists, a photo mosaic of the road cut, and from UNOCAL's Jamaica field Excursion Guide with measured sections by C.J. Stuart (1987).
 
The section was measured and described by C. Stuart (Stuart et al., 1987), and further related publications are listed below. The composite section shown in Stuart (1987), in Aubry (1993), and in Blow, W.H. (1969) indicate also the stratigraphic positions of samples from E. Robinson, that are deposited in the collection of E. Robinson (e.g. samples ER 146-21, ER 146-22, ER 146-23, ER 146-24, ER 146-25, ER 146-26, ER 146-27, ER 146-28, ER 146-29, ER 146-30).
 
 
Some related publications:
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
19.) Aquitaine, France, Parentis-well 15:
 
Picked foraminifers in slides, washed residues in slides from Parentis-15 well (Aquitaine, Basin, SW France).
 
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The Parentis oil field was discovered in 1954 by EssoRep, a subsidiary of Exxon, and is one of the biggest oil fileds ever found in France. Samples from Parentis-15 well are from that area, and were checked by J.B. Saunders, though there is no further documentation and no reference to literature given with the materials. Levels are indicated on the slides from 105' to 605' (indicated in feet ?). Samples contain mainly smaller benthic foraminifers. Planktonic forms indicate an Eocene-Oligocene-Miocene ? portion of the section. For literature see: Szöts, E., Malmoustier, G. and Magné, J. (1964), Michel, P. and Garreau, B. (1956) and Garreau, B (1956).
 
A stratigraphic survey log to the Upper Jurassic and Cretaceous Parentis type section is given in the Excursion Guide to the Colloque de Micropaléontologie 1957 - Aquitaine, 8-15 September, 1957.
 
 
 
 
 
Caribbean Sea, Venezuela Basin, core P6603-23:
 
20.) Bulk sediments and washed residues (size fractions 140-230 µm, and >230 µm), and Pleistocene foraminiferal assemblage slides from core P6603-23.
 
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This material was deposited in the collection of J.B. Saunders, together with core materials from Vema site V12-99. The expedition, coring leg or oil rig during which P6603-23 was recovered, is not known. Most probably, this was a pre-cruise survey for DSDP Site 150 (DSDP Leg XV), on which J.B. Saunders was participant.
 
The position of core P6603-23 is indicated at Lat. 14° 50'N, Long. 68° 58' W, water depth 4387 m, which is in the Venezuelan Basin, close to DSDP Sites 29 and 150. The core samples go down to 1901 cm. The picked assemblage slides (core levels from 40 cm to 1901 cm indicate a Holocene to Pleistocene age.
 
Sampling levels are (in cm): 41, 88, 178, 230, 321, 384, 475, 536, 635, 687, 792, 842, 942, 999, 1101, 1151, 1251, 1301, 1401, 1459, 1559, 1601, 1699, 1741, 1849, and 1901.
 
With the material deposited is a copy of the cruise synthesis chapter of DSDP Leg 15 by Saunders et al., (1973). See also the collection further below to Saunders, J.B., Beaudry, F.M., Hay, W.W., Bolli, H.M., Rögl, F., Riedel, W.R., Sanfilippo, A., and Premoli Silva, I. (1973).
 
 
 
 
 
 
Materials to Saunders, J.B. and Müller-Merz, E. (1982a). The genus Pseudononion in relationship with Nonion, Nonionella, and Nonionellina. Journal of Foraminiferal Research, 12(3):261-275. Closely related to this publication is the publication of Saunders, J.B. and Müller-Merz, E. (1982b).
 
Collection of SEM stubs with illustrated specimens, a folder containig the listings and sample information to the SEM micrographs (see table), washed and picked residues in Fema-cells of material described and benthic study materials from other provenances.
 
New species [Type materials deposited elsewhere]:
Pseudononion cuevasensis Saunders and Müller-Merz (1982)
 
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Paleogene of Alabama (U.S.A.):
 
21.) St. Stephens Quarry (Alabama).
Collection of unprocessed bulk sediments and washed residues from St. Stephens Quarry, Alabama, U.S.A..
 
No further information given to this material, but for a description of the Oligocene section and the Eocene-Oligocene boundary at this location see Mancini, E.A. and Copeland, C.W. (1986). St. Stephens Quarry (Lone Star Cement Company Quarry), St. Stephens, Washington County, Alabama, where a near complete Oligocene section, including the Eocene-Oligocene boundary, is exposed. Centennial Field Guide Volume 6. Southeastern Section of the Geological Society of America, 1986, pp. 373-378. A xerox copy of the article is deposited with the collection.
 
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22.) Millers Ferry (Alabama).
Collection of unprocessed bulk sediments and washed residues from Millers Ferry, Alabama, U.S.A..
 
No further information given to this material, but for a description of the Cretaceous-Tertiary transition and the lower Paleogene at this location see the contributions of Olsson, R.K. (1970). Planktonic foraminifera from base of Tertiary, Millers Ferry, Alabama. Journal of Paleontology, vol. 44, No. 4, pp. 598-604, and Olsson, R.K., Chengljie Liu and M. van Fossen (1996). The Cretaceous-Tertiary catastrophic event at Millers Ferry, Alabama. In: Ryder, G., Fastovsky,D., and Gartner, S. (eds.). The Cretaceous-Tertiary Event and Other Catastrophes in Earth History: Geological Society of America Special Paper 307, pp. 263-277, Boulder, Colorado, U.S.A. A xerox copy of the paper is deposited with the collection.
Compare also p. 448 in Rainwater, E.H. (1955).
 
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MRC DSDP & ODP:
23.) MRC-Begleitsammlungen (accompanying collections) of John B. Saunders.
 
SLG 33: "Foram-Begleit-Sammung to the MRC" of John B. Saunders.
Unprocessed samples and washed residues from various DSDP Legs.
 
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24.) Reference collection to Saunders, J.B., Beaudry, F.M., Hay, W.W., Bolli, H.M., Rögl, F., Riedel, W.R., Sanfilippo, A., and Premoli Silva, I. (1973). 19. Paleocene to Recent planktonic microfossil distribution in the marine and land areas of the Caribbean. Init. Reports DSDP, vol. 15, pp. 769-771.
 
The collection consists mainly of washed foraminifera residues from DSDP Site 148 (western margin of the Aves Ridge), preserved in glass-vials / paper envelopes. Unfortunately, sample information is only given down to core level, but not to sections or cm-intervals. For an overview of the stratigraphic range of these samples see the range charts (foraminifera etc.) in the back-pocket of DSDP vol. 15.
 
With the collection there are assemblage slides with selected picked foraminifera from DSDP Leg Sites 146, 147, 148 and 149 in Fema-cells, some with identifications by J.B. Saunders.
 
In addition, the collection also contains a sub-set of radiolarian slides (1 tray) from W.W. Riedel from DSDP Leg 15 discussed in the same paper.
 
2 Boxes with diapositives from John Saunders from DSDP Leg 15 / Trinidad / Venezuela.
 
See also related materials further above from the Caribbean Sea of J.B. Saunders (Grab- and Dredge samples, core P6603-23,
 
Eingang: 23 november 2018 (ex box 1 of 12).
 
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