Loc. 5 - Punta Sabanilla, Matanzas Bay: Pleistocene, Cuba

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Echinella nodulosa
SUBSPECIES: E. nodulosa matanzensis
Gastropoda - Vermetidae
Vermetus decussatus (Gmelin 1791)
recombined as Serpulorbis decussatus
Gastropoda - Triviidae
Trivia suffusa (Gray 1827)
recombined as Niveria suffusa
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Buccinidae
Caducifer intricatus (Dall 1884)
recombined as Bailya intricata
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Columbellidae
Columbella mercatoria (Linnaeus 1758)
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Conidae
Conus mus
Gastropoda - Lepetellida - Fissurellidae
Fissurella alternata Say 1822
synonym of Diodora cayenensis
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Spondylidae
Spondylus americanus Hermann 1781
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Limidae
Lima scabra (Born 1778)
recombined as Ctenoides (Ctenoides) scabra
Lima lima (Linnaeus 1758)
SUBSPECIES: L. lima caribaea
Bivalvia - Arcida - Arcidae
Arca candida Helbling 1779
recombined as Barbatia candida
Arca umbonata Lamarck 1819
synonym of Lamarcka imbricata
Arca reticulata Gmelin 1792
    = Acar domingensis Lamarck 1819
Hendy et al. 2008
unclassified
Cerion sp. Roding 1798
see common names

Geography
Country:Cuba
Coordinates: 22.0° North, 80.5° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:22.1° North, 80.3° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Altitude:25 feet
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Pleistocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Pleistocene
Age range of interval:2.58000 - 0.01170 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: No lithostratigraphic units named in text. AGE: Pleistocene (Richards 1935, 1962) based on the high proportion of Recent species. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Terrace up to 25 ft in elevation.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:shelly/skeletal poorly lithified "limestone"
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Limestone, coral heads, shells in limestone and loose. LITHIFICATION: No indication of lithification, but assumed to be poorly-lithified on the basis of age and lithologic description of adjacent collections (i.e. loose shells). No figured specimens.
Environment:carbonate indet.
Glacial or sequence phase:transgressive
Geology comments: ENVIRONMENT: No environmental data reported in text. From carbonate facies, hence carbonate environment. SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY: From terrace, hence transgressive.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some macrofossils
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:CM
Collection method comments: COLLECTORS: Collected by H.G. Richards and R.E. Dickerson (1933). REPOSITORIES: Collections held in the Carnegie Museum.
Taxonomic list comments:COVERAGE: Exhaustive for gastropoda and bivalvia. Said to include corals, though these are not listed. NOMENCLATURE: An authoratative publication, although somewhat antiquated. However, all occurrences include species-resolution assignments.
Metadata
Database number:66768
Authorizer:A. Hendy Enterer:A. Hendy
Modifier:A. Hendy Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2006-10-15 23:04:37 Last modified:2013-11-25 13:37:23
Access level:group members Released:2007-10-15 23:04:37
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
19017. H. G. Richards. 1935. Pleistocene Mollusks from western Cuba. Journal of Paleontology 9(3):253-258 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]

Secondary references:

19909 A. J. W. Hendy, D. P. Buick, K. V. Bulinski, C. A. Ferguson, and A. I. Miller. 2008. Unpublished census data from Atlantic coastal plain and circum-Caribbean Neogene assemblages and taxonomic opinions. [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]