Where: Dominican Republic (19.9° N, 71.6° W: paleocoordinates 19.9° N, 70.8° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• The section starts at sea level with claystone and continues for close to 700 ft with alternating claystone, limestones and uncommon sands. At 675-825 ft the section is capped by a limeston. From unknown formation (Possibly Cercado, Gurabo or Mao) at the time of writing. Faunal similarities suggest that this unit is correlated with strata more recently assigned to the Cercadi Fm.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; poorly lithified, gypsiferous, calcareous 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 58871: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 27.02.2006

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