Loc. 7 - Matanzas, Matanzas Bay: Pleistocene, Cuba

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Arca auriculata Lamarck 1819
    = Anadara notabilis Röding 1798
Rosenberg 2005
COMMENTS: Misidentification by Dall (1889b); Scapharca auriculata is from the Red Sea.
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Pecten gibbus Linnaeus 1758
recombined as Argopecten gibbus
SUBSPECIES: P. gibbus nucleus
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Spondylidae
Spondylus americanus Hermann 1781
Bivalvia - Lucinida - Lucinidae
Lucina chrysostoma Philippi 1845
synonym of Anodontia alba
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
Cardium medium Linnaeaus 1758
recombined as Americardia media
Cardium muricatum Linnaeus 1758
recombined as Trachycardium (Dallocardia) muricatum
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
Chione paphia (Linnaeus 1767)
recombined as Lirophora (Lirophora) paphia
Chione cancellata (Linnaeus 1767)
Venus listeri (Gray 1838)
recombined as Periglypta listeri
Petricola typica
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Architectonicidae
Solarium granulatum Lamarck 1822
synonym of Architectonica nobilis
Gastropoda - Naticidae
Natica canrena (Linnaeus 1758)
recombined as Naticarius canrena
Gastropoda - Strombidae
Strombus gigas Linnaeus 1758
recombined as Lobatus gigas
see common names

Geography
Country:Cuba
Coordinates: 22.7° North, 81.2° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:22.7° North, 81.0° 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: poorly lithified "limestone"
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Limestone. 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 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. NOMENCLATURE: An authoratative publication, although somewhat antiquated. However, all occurrences include species-resolution assignments.
Metadata
Database number:66770
Authorizer:A. Hendy Enterer:A. Hendy
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2006-10-15 23:10:06 Last modified:2013-11-25 13:37:23
Access level:group members Released:2006-10-15 23:10:03
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:

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]