USNM 8625: Pleistocene, Dominican Republic
collected by Ross 1919
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Bivalvia
- Arcida
- Arcidae
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Arca (Scapharca) auriculata
(Lamarck 1819)
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= Anadara (Larkinia) notabilis
Röding 1798
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Hendy et al. 2008 | ||||||
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Chamidae
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Chama macerophylla
Gmelin 1791
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Hydrozoa
- Milleporina
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Millepora alcicornis
Linnaeus 1758
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Acroporidae
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Acropora muricata
(Linnaeus 1758)
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= Acropora cervicornis
Lamarck 1816
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Kiessling et al. 2011 | ||||||
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Poritidae
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Porites porites
(Pallas 1766)
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Meandrinidae
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Eusmilia fastigata
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= Eusmilia fastigiata
Pallas 1766
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Kiessling et al. 2011 | ||||||
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Dichocoenia stokesi
Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Mussidae
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Maeandra areolata
(Linnaeus 1758)
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| recombined as Manicina areolata | |||||||
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Geography
| Country: | Dominican Republic |
| Coordinates: | 18.4° North, 71.5° West (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 18.4° North, 71.4° West |
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark |
| 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: STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: Unknown lithostratigraphy. AGE: Undifferentiated Pleistocene. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Unknown position within section. | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | unlithified sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Unknown, but likely to to be sandstone given lithology of nearby collection. LITHIFICATION: Unlithified, assumed on the basis of age and likely facies. | |
| Environment: | coastal indet. |
| Geology comments: ENVIRONMENT: Environmental data not reported in text. | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | field collection | ||
| Reason for describing collection: | biostratigraphic analysis | ||
| Museum repositories: | USNM | ||
| Collectors: | Ross | Collection dates: | 1919 |
| Collection method comments: COLLECTOR: C. P. Ross. REPOSITORY: Not stated, but numbers presumably correspond to USGS collections, hence probably reposited in USNM. | |||
| Taxonomic list comments:COVERAGE: Includes anthozoans, bivalves and gastropods. | |||
Metadata
| Also known as: | R 52 | ||
| Database number: | 75424 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Hendy, W. Kiessling | Enterer: | A. Hendy, U. Merkel, W. Kiessling |
| Modifier: | A. Hendy | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2007-10-09 05:26:39 | Last modified: | 2013-11-25 13:37:23 |
| Access level: | authorizer only | Released: | 2008-10-09 05:26:39 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 25443. | T. W. Vaughan, W. Cooke, D. D. Condit, C. P. Ross, W. P. Woodring and F. C. Calkins. 1921. A geological reconnaissance of the Dominican Republic. Geological Survey of the Dominican Republic Memoir 1:1-268 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/U. Merkel] |
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] | |
| 35169 | W. Kiessling, C. Simpson, B. Beck and J. Pandolfi. 2011. Taxonomic vetting of Pleistocene coral occurrence data. [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel] |