Guayubin to Mao Road, Rio Cano: Early/Lower Pliocene, Dominican Republic
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Bivalvia
- Arcida
- Arcidae
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Scapharca margaretae
Maury 1917
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| recombined as Anadara (Sectiarca) margaretae | ||||||||||
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Scapharca inaequilateralis
Maury 1917
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| recombined as Anadara (Sectiarca) inaequilateralis | ||||||||||
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Scapharca guayubinica
Maury 1917
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| recombined as Anadara (Rasia) guayubinica | ||||||||||
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Scapharca patricia
(Sowerby 1849)
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| recombined as Anadara (Grandiarca) patricia | ||||||||||
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Barbatia (Calloarca) submarylandica
Maury 1917
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Bivalvia
- Ostreida
- Ostreidae
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Ostrea virginica
Gmelin 1791
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| recombined as Crassostrea virginica | ||||||||||
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Ostrea megodon
Hanley 1846
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= Ostrea messor
Maury 1925
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Weisbord 1964 | |||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Pectinida
- Pectinidae
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Amusium papyraceum
(Gabb 1873)
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Bivalvia
- Pectinida
- Anomiidae
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Placunanomia lithobleta
Dall 1898
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Veneridae
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Antigona blandiana
(Guppy 1873)
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| recombined as Ventricolaria blandiana | ||||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Chamidae
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Chama involuta
Guppy 1873
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Gastropoda
- Naticidae
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Polinices stanislasneunieri
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Gastropoda
- Vermetidae
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Serpulorbis papulosa
(Guppy 1866)
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| recombined as Serpulorbis papulosus | ||||||||||
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Serpulorbis granifera
(Say 1824)
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Conidae
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Conus catenatus
Sowerby 1849
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Muricidae
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Murex cornurectus
Guppy 1876
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| recombined as Chicoreus (Triplex) cornurectus | ||||||||||
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Murex domingensis
Sowerby 1850
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| recombined as Chicoreus (Siratus) domingensis | ||||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Strombidae
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Strombus pugiloides
Guppy 1866
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| synonym of Strombus proximus | ||||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Bursidae
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Bursa crassa
(Dillwyn 1817)
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| synonym of Marsupina bufo | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Dominican Republic |
| Coordinates: | 19.6° North, 71.3° West (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 19.6° North, 70.8° West |
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Pliocene |
| Stage: | Zanclean | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
| Key time interval: | Early/Lower Pliocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 5.33300 - 3.60000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Gurabo | ||||
| Local section: | Guayubin-Mao Rd | ||||
| Regional section: | Rio Cano | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: From an individual section. Unknown formation at the time of publication (Possibly Cercado, Gurabo or Mao). On the basis of faunal similarity this is correlated to upper units on Rio Cana, which more recent work suggested is Gurabo Fm. | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: No lithologic data reported. | |
| Environment: | offshore |
| Geology comments: No paleoenvironmental data reported by Maury. | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,original aragonite |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | good |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | selective quarrying,field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | AMNH |
| Collection method comments: Collections reposited at Cornell University and now reside at PRI. | |
| Taxonomic list comments:Identifications to species level, though antiquated genus-level nomenclature. | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 58874 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Hendy | Enterer: | A. Hendy |
| Modifier: | A. Hendy | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2006-02-27 11:57:47 | Last modified: | 2013-11-25 13:37:23 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2006-02-27 11:57:47 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 16689. | C. J. Maury. 1917. Santo Domingo type sections and fossils. Bulletins of American Paleontology 5(30):1-43 [A. Miller/A. Hendy] |
Secondary references:
| 11137 | N. E. Weisbord. 1964. Late Cenozoic pelecypods from northern Venezuela. Bulletins of American Paleontology 45(204):1-564 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/O. Alfaro] |