Loc. 6 - Punta Sabanilla, Matanzas Bay: Pleistocene, Cuba
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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unclassified
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Melarphe mespilium
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Submarginula octoradiata
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Gastropoda
- Turbinidae
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Arene cruentata
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Gastropoda
- Lepetellida
- Fissurellidae
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Fissurella alternata
Say 1822
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| synonym of Diodora cayenensis | ||||||||||
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Fissurella barbadensis
(Gmelin 1791)
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Fissurella nodosa
(Born 1778)
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Gastropoda
- Pseudomelaniidae
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Drillia cf. fuscescens
(Reeve 1843)
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| recombined as Crassispira fuscescens | ||||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Cerithiidae
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Cerithium cf. floridanum
Mörch 1876
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| synonym of Cerithium atratum | ||||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Hipponicidae
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Hipponyx antiquata
(Linnaeus 1767)
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| recombined as Hipponix antiquatus | ||||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Volutidae
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Livonia pica
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Mitridae
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Mitra granulosa
Lamarck 1811
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| synonym of Mitra nodulosa | ||||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Columbellidae
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Columbella mercatoria
(Linnaeus 1758)
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Conidae
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Conus mus
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Gastropoda
- Littorinidae
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Littorina ziczac
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Littorina nebulosa
(Lamarck 1822)
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| recombined as Littoraria nebulosa | ||||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Siphonariidae
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Siphonaria brunnea
Hanley 1858
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| synonym of Siphonaria alternata | ||||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Neritidae
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Nerita versicolor
Gmelin 1791
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Chamidae
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Chama floridana
(Lamarck 1819)
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| original and current combination Chama florida | ||||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Cardiidae
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Cardium medium
Linnaeaus 1758
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| recombined as Americardia media | ||||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Arcida
- Arcidae
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Arca reticulata
Gmelin 1792
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= Acar domingensis
Lamarck 1819
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Hendy et al. 2008 | |||||||||
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Arca umbonata
Lamarck 1819
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| synonym of Lamarcka imbricata | ||||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Pectinida
- Limidae
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Lima lima
(Linnaeus 1758)
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| SUBSPECIES: L. lima caribaea | ||||||||||
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= Lima caribaea
d'Orbigny 1853
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Rosenberg 2005 | |||||||||
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Scaphopoda
- Dentaliida
- Dentaliidae
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Dentalium sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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Thecostraca
- Balanomorpha
- Balanidae
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Balanus sp.
Da Costa 1778
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| 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: | 66769 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Hendy | Enterer: | A. Hendy |
| Modifier: | A. Hendy | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2006-10-15 23:05:01 | Last modified: | 2013-11-25 13:37:23 |
| Access level: | group members | Released: | 2007-10-15 23:05:01 |
| 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] | |
| 19419 | G. Rosenberg. 2005. Malacolog 4.0: A database of Western Atlantic marine Mollusca. [WWW database (version 4.1.0)] URL http://data.acnatsci.org/wasp [A. Hendy/A. Hendy] |