Where: Dominican Republic (19.5° N, 71.1° W: paleocoordinates 19.4° N, 70.2° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Cercado Formation, Tortonian (11.6 - 7.2 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Cercado Formation, which unconformably overlies the Baitoa Formation, and is unconformably overlain by the Cercado Formation. AGE: Late Miocene, based on Table 1 of Saunders et al. (1986); late Miocene according to Jung (1994, p. 260); direct date from Cheetham et al. (1999). STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Bluff approximately 200 ft thick.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; poorly lithified, blue claystone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original aragonite

Collected by C. J. Maury; reposited in the PRI, USNM

Collection methods: quarrying,

• Collections reposited at Cornell University and now reside at PRI (decapods at USNM).

Primary reference: C. J. Maury. 1917. Santo Domingo type sections and fossils. Bulletins of American Paleontology 5(30):1-43 [A. Miller/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 58817: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 24.02.2006, edited by Matthew Clapham and Pete Wagner

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