Loc. 12 - Mariel, eastern Matanzas Province: Pleistocene, Cuba

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Ultimus gibbosus
Liguus fasciatus
Arca auriculata Lamarck 1819
    = Anadara notabilis Röding 1798
Rosenberg 2005
COMMENTS: Misidentification by Dall (1889b); Scapharca auriculata is from the Red Sea.
Gastropoda - Neritidae
Nerita versicolor Gmelin 1791
Gastropoda - Modulidae
Modulus modulus (Linnaeus 1758)
Gastropoda - Cerithiidae
Cerithium atratum (Born 1778)
Cerithium cf. floridanum Mörch 1876
synonym of Cerithium atratum
Cerithium litteratum (Born 1778)
[entered as Cerithium literatum]
    = Cerithium litteratum Born 1778
Hendy et al. 2008
Misspelling
Gastropoda - Batillariidae
Cerithium minimum (Gmelin 1791)
recombined as Batillaria minima
Gastropoda - Cassidae
Cassis testiculus (Linnaeus 1758)
recombined as Cypraecassis testiculus
Gastropoda - Strombidae
Strombus gigas Linnaeus 1758
recombined as Lobatus gigas
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Volutidae
Livonia pica
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Muricidae
Murex pomum Gmelin 1791
recombined as Chicoreus (Phyllonotus) pomum
Gastropoda - Lepetellida - Fissurellidae
Fissurella alternata Say 1822
synonym of Diodora cayenensis
Gastropoda - Opisthobranchia - Bullidae
Bulla amygdala
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostrea parasitica Gmelin 1791
Ostrea frons (Linnaeus 1758)
recombined as Dendostrea frons
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Malleidae
Perna alata (Gmelin 1791)
recombined as Isognomon alatus
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Limidae
Lima scabra (Born 1778)
recombined as Ctenoides (Ctenoides) scabra
Bivalvia - Arcida - Noetiidae
Arca adamsi Dall 1886
recombined as Arcopsis adamsi
Bivalvia - Arcida - Arcidae
Arca candida Helbling 1779
recombined as Barbatia candida
Arca umbonata Lamarck 1819
synonym of Lamarcka imbricata
Arca chemnitzi Philippi 1851
Arca occidentalis Philippi 1847
synonym of Byssoarca zebra
Bivalvia - Lucinida - Lucinidae
Lucina squamosa
    = Ctena orbiculata Montagu 1808
Hendy et al. 2008
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Dreissenidae
Dreissensia (Mytilopsis) leucopheata
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
Venus listeri (Gray 1838)
recombined as Periglypta listeri
Chione paphia (Linnaeus 1767)
recombined as Lirophora (Lirophora) paphia
Chione cancellata (Linnaeus 1767)
Chione granulata
    = Chione elevata Say 1822
Hendy et al. 2008
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Chamidae
Chama macerophylla Gmelin 1791
Chama floridana (Lamarck 1819)
original and current combination Chama florida
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Ungulinidae
Diplodonta semiaspera Philippi 1836
recombined as Diplodonta (Phlyctiderma) semiaspera
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
Cardium medium Linnaeaus 1758
recombined as Americardia media
Cardium spinosum Meuschen 1787
synonym of Papyridea soleniformis
Cardium muricatum Linnaeus 1758
recombined as Trachycardium (Dallocardia) muricatum
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Tellinidae
Tellina fausta Pulteney 1799
recombined as Arcopagia fausta
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Semelidae
Semele reticulata
    = Semele proficua Pulteney 1799
Hendy et al. 2008
Semele orbiculata (Say 1822)
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Psammobiidae
Heterodonax cf. bimaculata (Linnaeus 1758)
recombined as Heterodonax bimaculatus
see common names

Geography
Country:Cuba
Coordinates: 22.5° North, 80.9° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:22.6° North, 80.7° 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 sandy "limestone"
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Limestone and sand, coral and 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:66775
Authorizer:A. Hendy Enterer:A. Hendy
Modifier:A. Hendy Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2006-10-15 23:35:41 Last modified:2013-11-25 13:37:23
Access level:group members Released:2007-10-15 23:35:41
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]