Cercado de Mao - Bluff No. 1: Early/Lower Pliocene, Dominican Republic

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Ampullinidae
Amauropsis guppyi (Gabb 1873)
recombined as Pachycrommium guppyi
Gastropoda - Rissoidae
Crepitacella cepula (Guppy 1866)
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Olividae
Oliva cylindrica Sowerby 1850
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Volutidae
Lyria pulchella (Sowerby 1850)
recombined as Lyria (Lyria) pulchella
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Muricidae
Murex domingensis Sowerby 1850
recombined as Chicoreus (Siratus) domingensis
Murex cornurectus Guppy 1876
recombined as Chicoreus (Triplex) cornurectus
Typhis cercadicus Maury 1917
recombined as Siphonochelus (Siphonochelus) cercadicus
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Marginellidae
Marginella coniformis Sowerby 1850
recombined as Prunum coniforme
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Harpidae
Morum domingense (Sowerby 1850)
recombined as Morum (Oniscidia) domingense
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Mitridae
Mitra henekeni Sowerby 1850
Mitra berlineri Maury 1917
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Buccinidae
Phos moorei Guppy 1866
recombined as Antillophos (Antillophos) moorei
Metula cancellata Gabb 1873
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Fasciolariidae
Fasciolaria carminamaris Maury 1917
Fasciolaria semistriata Sowerby 1850
Fusus henekeni Sowerby 1850
recombined as Fusinus henekeni
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Columbellidae
Metulella venusta (Sowerby 1850)
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Turbinellidae
Xancus praeovoideus Maury 1917
synonym of Turbinella trinitatis
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Cancellariidae
Cancellaria epistomifera Guppy 1876
recombined as Bivetiella epistomifera
Cancellaria barretti Guppy 1866
    = Cancellaria (Cancellaria) mauryae Olsson 1922
Jung and Petit 1990
    = Cancellaria sp. Lamarck 1799
Landau et al. 2012
Cancellaria guppyi Gabb 1873
recombined as Cancellaria (Cancellaria) guppyi
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Turridae
Turris albida (Perry 1811)
recombined as Polystira albida
Cythara cercadica Maury 1917
synonym of Lepicythara heptagona
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Clavatulidae
Surcula riomaonis Maury 1917
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Conidae
Conus granozonatoides Maury 1917
Conus gaza Johnson and Pilsbry 1911
synonym of Conus (Dauciconus) multiliratus
Conus karlschmidti Maury 1917
Conus sewalli Maury 1917
synonym of Conus (Stephanoconus) sewalli
Conus haytensis Sowerby 1849
synonym of Conus (Pyruconus) haytensis
Conus stenostomus (Sowerby 1850)
recombined as Conasprella stenostoma
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Drilliidae
Drillia venusta (Sowerby 1850)
recombined as Clathrodrillia venusta
Drillia islalindae Maury 1917
recombined as Clathrodrillia islalindae
Drillia henekeni (Sowerby 1850)
recombined as Hindsiclava henekeni
Drillia cercadonis Maury 1917
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Terebridae
Terebra haitensis Dall 1895
recombined as Terebra (Oreoterebra) haitensis
Gastropoda - Cypraeidae
Cypraea noueli Maury 1917
recombined as Cypraeorbis noveli
Cypraea spurca Linnaeus 1758
    = Erosaria acicularis Gmelin 1791
Hendy et al. 2008
Cypraea henekeni (Sowerby 1850)
recombined as Muracypraea henekeni
Cypraea spurcoides Gabb 1873
recombined as Zonaria spurcoides
Cypraea patrespatriae Maury 1917
recombined as Luria (Basilitrona) patrespatriae
Gastropoda - Xenophoridae
Xenophora delecta (Guppy 1876)
Gastropoda - Strombidae
Strombus bifrons Sowerby 1850
Strombus proximus Sowerby 1850
Strombus haitensis Sowerby 1850
recombined as Lobatus haitensis
Strombus maoensis Maury 1917
synonym of Lobatus dominator
Gastropoda - Personidae
Distortrix simillima (Sowerby 1850)
recombined as Distorsio simillima
Gastropoda - Cassidae
Sconsia laevigata (Guppy 1850)
Cassis sulcifera Sowerby 1850
Gastropoda - Naticidae
Natica canrena (Linnaeus 1758)
recombined as Naticarius canrena
Natica youngi Maury 1917
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Architectonicidae
Solarium quadriseriatum Sowerby 1850
synonym of Architectonica nobilis
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
Antigona blaudiana
Chione hendersoni
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Chamidae
Echinochama antiquata (Guppy 1866)
recombined as Arcinella antiquata
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
Cardium serratum Linnaeus 1758
recombined as Laevicardium serratum
Bivalvia - Arcida - Glycymerididae
Glycymeris acuticostata (Sowerby 1849)
recombined as Tucetona acuticostata
Bivalvia - Arcida - Arcidae
Scapharca cercadica Maury 1917
recombined as Anadara (Rasia) cercadica
(1 measurement)
Scapharca golfoyaquensis (Maury 1917)
recombined as Anadara (Rasia) golfoyaquensis
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Pecten excentricus (Gabb 1873)
recombined as Argopecten eccentricus
Pecten ? soror (Gabb 1873)
recombined as Euvola soror
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Spondylidae
Spondylus bostrychites Guppy 1867
see common names

Geography
Country:Dominican Republic
Coordinates: 19.5° North, 71.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:19.5° North, 70.7° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Pliocene
Stage:Zanclean 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Early/Lower Pliocene
Age range of interval:5.33300 - 3.60000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Gurabo
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Bluff approximately 200 ft thick.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:blue poorly lithified claystone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: Blue clays locally hard and brittle. No limestone.
Environment:offshore
Geology comments: No paleoenvironmental data reported by Maury.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:PRI
Collection method comments: Collections reposited at Cornell University and now reside at PRI.
Taxonomic list comments:Exhaustive for poorly resolved section. Identifications to species level, though antiquated genus-level nomenclature.
Metadata
Database number:58815
Authorizer:A. Hendy Enterer:A. Hendy
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2006-02-24 19:27:35 Last modified:2022-07-22 22:47:50
Access level:the public Released:2006-02-24 19:27:35
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
16689. C. J. Maury. 1917. Santo Domingo type sections and fossils. Bulletins of American Paleontology 5(30):1-43 [A. Miller/A. Hendy]

Secondary references:

19909 A. J. W. Hendy, D. P. Buick, K. V. Bulinski, C. A. Ferguson, and A. I. Miller. 2008. Unpublished census data from Atlantic coastal plain and circum-Caribbean Neogene assemblages and taxonomic opinions. [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]
43555 P. Jung and R. E. Petit. 1990. Neogene paleontology in the northern Dominican Republic, 10. The family Cancellariidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Bulletins of American Paleontology 98(334):87-144 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]
43469 B. D. Landau, R. E. Petit, and C. M. Silva. 2012. The family Cancellariidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) in the Neogene of the Bocas del Toro region, Panama, with the description of seven new species. Journal of Paleontology 86(2):311-339 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]