Also known as R 52
Where: Dominican Republic (18.4° N, 71.5° W: paleocoordinates 18.4° N, 71.4° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: Unknown lithostratigraphy. AGE: Undifferentiated Pleistocene. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Unknown position within section.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified sandstone
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 75424: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 09.10.2007, edited by Uta Merkel and Wolfgang Kiessling
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Chama macerophylla Gmelin 1791 jewel box | |
| Hydrozoa | |
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Millepora alcicornis Linnaeus 1758 fire coral | |
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Porites porites Pallas 1766 stony coral | |
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Dichocoenia stokesi Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral | |
"Maeandra areolata" = Manicina areolata
"Maeandra areolata" = Manicina areolata Linnaeus 1758 stony coral | |