USNM 8690 (Pleistocene of Dominican Republic)

Also known as DC 11

Where: Dominican Republic (18.5° N, 69.3° W: paleocoordinates 18.5° N, 69.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: Unknown lithosratigraphy. From limestone underlying San Pedro de MacorĂ­s. AGE: Undifferentiated Pleistocene. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Unknown position within section.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

• ENVIRONMENT: Environmental data not reported in text.
• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Limestone. LITHIFICATION: Lithified, assumed on the basis of facies description.

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Condit; reposited in the USNM

• COLLECTOR: D. C. Condit. REPOSITORY: Not stated, but numbers presumably correspond to USGS collections, hence probably reposited in USNM.

Primary reference: T. W. Vaughan, W. Cooke, D. D. Condit, C. P. Ross, W. P. Woodring and F. C. Calkins. 1921. A geological reconnaissance of the Dominican Republic. Geological Survey of the Dominican Republic Memoir 1:1-268 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 75418: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 09.10.2007, edited by Uta Merkel and Wolfgang Kiessling

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Includes anthozoans, bivalves and gastropods.
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostrea sp. Linnaeus 1758 oyster
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Astrocoeniidae
Stephanocoenia intersepta Esper 1795 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Acroporidae
Acropora cervicornis Lamarck 1816 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Siderastreidae
Siderastrea siderea Ellis and Solander 1786 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Poritidae
Porites porites Pallas 1766 stony coral
Porites astreoides Lamarck 1816 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Agariciidae
"Agaricia purpurea" = Agaricia agaricites
"Agaricia purpurea" = Agaricia agaricites Linnaeus 1758 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Meandrinidae
Dichocoenia stokesi Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Merulinidae
Orbicella annularis Ellis and Solander 1876 stony coral
SUBSPECIES: O. annularis columniform
 Scleractinia - Mussidae
"Manicina gyrosa" = Manicina areolata
"Manicina gyrosa" = Manicina areolata Linnaeus 1758 stony coral