Where: Dominican Republic (19.4° N, 71.1° W: paleocoordinates 19.4° N, 70.3° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Cercado Formation, Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)

• From an individual section. Unknown formation at the time of publication (Possibly Cercado, Gurabo or Mao). On the basis of faunal similarity this is correlated to Bluff #3 on Rio Mao, which more recent work suggested is Cercado Fm.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshorepoorly lithified

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original aragonite

Reposited in the AMNH

Collection methods: quarrying,

• Collections reposited AMNH

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 58875: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 27.02.2006

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