Where: Dominican Republic (19.6° N, 71.3° W: paleocoordinates 19.6° N, 70.4° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Cercado Formation, Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)
• Claystone. From unknown formation (Possibly Cercado, Gurabo or Mao) at the time of writing. Section of unknown thickness at 540 ft elevation. At 870 ft occurs an unfossilferous limestone bed, at 660 ft a bed of sandstone, at 600 ft a second sandstone bed outcroped, and at 540 ft the bed from which the collection was obtained. Probably equivalent to the Cercado Formation.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; poorly lithified, shelly/skeletal, yellow claystone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: original aragonite
Reposited in the PRI
Collection methods: quarrying,
• Collections reposited at Cornell University and now reside at PRI.
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 58870: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 27.02.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
"Cardium serratum" = Laevicardium serratum, "Cardium sambaicum" = Trigoniocardia sambaicum
"Cardium serratum" = Laevicardium serratum Linnaeus 1758 cockle
"Cardium sambaicum" = Trigoniocardia sambaicum Maury 1917 cockle | |
"Myrtaea lomasdesamba" = Myrtea
"Myrtaea lomasdesamba" = Myrtea clam | |
"Ostrea virginica" = Crassostrea virginica
"Ostrea virginica" = Crassostrea virginica Gmelin 1791 oyster | |
"Pecten thetidis" = Argopecten thetidis, "Pecten eugrammatus" = Argopecten thetidis, "Pecten vaginulus" = Spathochlamys vaginula, Amusium papyraceum
"Pecten thetidis" = Argopecten thetidis Sowerby 1850 calico scallop
"Pecten eugrammatus" = Argopecten thetidis Sowerby 1850 calico scallop
"Pecten vaginulus" = Spathochlamys vaginula Dall 1898 scallop
Amusium papyraceum Gabb 1873 scallop | |
"Barbatia cf. bonaczyi" = Barbatia (Barbatia) bonaczyi, "Arca lomasdesamba" = Arca (Arca) lomasdesamba, "Scapharca henekeni" = Anadara (Sectiarca) henekeni
"Barbatia cf. bonaczyi" = Barbatia (Barbatia) bonaczyi Gabb 1873 clam
"Arca lomasdesamba" = Arca (Arca) lomasdesamba Maury 1917 ark
"Scapharca henekeni" = Anadara (Sectiarca) henekeni Maury 1917 ark | |
"Glycymeris acuticostata" = Tucetona acuticostata
"Glycymeris acuticostata" = Tucetona acuticostata Sowerby 1849 clam Listed originally as Glycimeris [=Panopea]
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Gastropoda | |
Calliostoma grabaui Maury 1917 top snail |