Where: Dominican Republic (19.5° N, 71.3° W: paleocoordinates 19.5° N, 70.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

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

• Zone I. From unknown formation (Possibly Cercado, Gurabo or Mao) at the time of writing. Section approximately 50 ft thick, 680 ft from base of section. Later shown to be correlated to the Cercado Fm.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; poorly lithified, green claystone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: concretion, 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 58869: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 27.02.2006

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