Loc. 9 - Ermita de Monserrat, 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.
Gastropoda - Neotaenioglossa - Calyptraeidae
Crepidula fornicata (Linnaeus 1758)
Gastropoda - Strombidae
Strombus pugilis Linnaeus 1758
Strombus gigas Linnaeus 1758
recombined as Lobatus gigas
Gastropoda - Neritidae
Neritina virginea (Linnaeus 1758)
Bivalvia - Lucinida - Lucinidae
Lucina jamaicensis Lamarck 1801
synonym of Phacoides pectinatus
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Dreissenidae
Dreissensia (Mytilopsis) leucopheata
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
Chione granulata
    = Chione elevata Say 1822
Hendy et al. 2008
Chione cancellata (Linnaeus 1767)
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Solecurtidae
Tagelus gibbus (Spengler 1794)
synonym of Tagelus plebeius
Bivalvia - Mytilida - Mytilidae
Mytilus exustus Linnaeus 1758
recombined as Brachidontes exustus
Bivalvia - Arcida - Arcidae
Arca campechiensis Gmelin 1791
synonym of Lunarca ovalis
Arca chemnitzi Philippi 1851
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Malleidae
Perna alata (Gmelin 1791)
recombined as Isognomon alatus
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostrea parasitica Gmelin 1791
Malacostraca - Decapoda - Gecarcinidae
Gecarcinus ruricola Linnaeus 1758
unclassified
Cerion dickersoni
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:350 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 350 ft in elevation.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: poorly lithified sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Sand. 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:marginal marine indet.
Glacial or sequence phase:transgressive
Geology comments: ENVIRONMENT: No environmental data reported in text. 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:66772
Authorizer:A. Hendy Enterer:A. Hendy
Modifier:J. Wolfe Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2006-10-15 23:12:35 Last modified:2022-03-19 16:38:46
Access level:group members Released:2007-04-15 23:12:35
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]