USNM 8776 (Holocene of Dominican Republic)

Also known as R 27

Where: Dominican Republic (19.7° N, 71.4° W: paleocoordinates 19.7° N, 71.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: Unknown lithosratigraphy. AGE: Undifferentiated Pleistocene. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Unknown position within section.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shoreface; unlithified siliciclastic sediments

• ENVIRONMENT: Environmental data not reported in text.
• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Unknown, probably siliciclastic given from beach facies. LITHIFICATION: Unlithified, assumed on the basis of facies description.

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Ross in 1919; reposited in the USNM

• COLLECTOR: C. P. Ross. REPOSITORY: Not stated, but numbers presumably correspond to USGS collections, hence probably reposited in 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 1:1-268 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 75421: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 09.10.2007

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Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Includes anthozoans, bivalves and gastropods.
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Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Strombidae
"Strombus gigas" = Lobatus gigas
"Strombus gigas" = Lobatus gigas Linnaeus 1758 true conch
Bivalvia
 Lucinida - Lucinidae
"Codakia orbicularis" = Codakia (Codakia) orbicularis
"Codakia orbicularis" = Codakia (Codakia) orbicularis Linnaeus 1758 clam