Also known as C.63
Where: Haiti (19.3° N, 70.7° W: paleocoordinates 18.4° N, 69.8° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Early/Lower Oligocene to Early/Lower Oligocene (33.9 - 23.0 Ma)
• AGE ASSIGNMENT: Middle Oligocene according to Vaughan et al.. I have assigned this an Early to Late Oligocene age, pending more refined biostratigraphic data. STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From lower part of bluff; beds are steeply tilted.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified, gray, conglomeratic sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: quarrying,
• COLLECTORS: C.W. Cooke (May 14, 1919). REPOSITORIES: unknown repository, possibly Geological Survey of the Dominican Republic, or the USGS/USNM.
Primary reference: 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 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/O. Alfaro]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 61191: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 30.05.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
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Gastropoda | |
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"Potamides ? ormei" = Potamides suprasulcatus
"Potamides ? ormei" = Potamides suprasulcatus Gabb 1873 horn snail | |
Conus sp. Linnaeus 1758 cone shell | |
Strombus sp. Linnaeus 1758 conch | |
Bivalvia | |
"Pecten (Aequipecten) sp." = Aequipecten
"Pecten (Aequipecten) sp." = Aequipecten Fischer 1886 scallop | |
Ostrea sp. Linnaeus 1758 oyster | |
Chama sp. Linnaeus 1758 jewel box | |
Anthozoa | |
Pocillopora sp. Lamarck 1816 stony coral | |
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Goniopora aff. microscopica Duncan 1863 stony coral | |
"Cyathomorpha tenuis" = Agathiphyllia tenuis
"Cyathomorpha tenuis" = Agathiphyllia tenuis Duncan 1863 stony coral | |
"Orbicella aff. canalis" = Montastraea endothecata
"Orbicella aff. canalis" = Montastraea endothecata Duncan 1863 stony coral | |
Antiguastrea cellulosa Duncan 1863 stony coral |