Where: Dominican Republic (19.6° N, 71.3° W: paleocoordinates 19.6° N, 70.4° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• Claystone. From unknown formation (Possibly Cercado, Gurabo or Mao) at the time of writing. Section of unknown thickness at 540 ft elevation. At 870 ft occurs an unfossilferous limestone bed, at 660 ft a bed of sandstone, at 600 ft a second sandstone bed outcroped, and at 540 ft the bed from which the collection was obtained. Probably equivalent to the Cercado Formation.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; poorly lithified, shelly/skeletal, yellow claystone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original aragonite

Reposited in the PRI

Collection methods: quarrying,

• Collections reposited at Cornell University and now reside at PRI.

Primary reference: C. J. Maury. 1917. Santo Domingo type sections and fossils. Bulletins of American Paleontology 5(30):1-43 [A. Miller/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 58870: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 27.02.2006

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