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

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Arcida - Arcidae
(1 measurement)
Bivalvia - Arcida - Glycymerididae
Glycymeris acuticostata (Sowerby 1849)
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Spondylidae
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Pecten ? soror (Gabb 1873)
Pecten excentricus (Gabb 1873)
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Chamidae
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
Cardium serratum Linnaeus 1758
Gastropoda - Naticidae
Natica youngi Maury 1917
Natica canrena (Linnaeus 1758)
Gastropoda - Cassidae
Cassis sulcifera Sowerby 1850
Sconsia laevigata (Guppy 1850)
Gastropoda - Personidae
Distortrix simillima (Sowerby 1850)
Gastropoda - Cypraeidae
Hendy et al. 2008
Gastropoda - Xenophoridae
Xenophora delecta (Guppy 1876)
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Fasciolariidae
Fusus henekeni Sowerby 1850
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Buccinidae
Phos moorei Guppy 1866
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Columbellidae
Metulella venusta (Sowerby 1850)
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Olividae
Oliva cylindrica Sowerby 1850
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Conidae
Conus gaza Johnson and Pilsbry 1911
Conus haytensis Sowerby 1849
Conus stenostomus (Sowerby 1850)
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Drilliidae
Drillia venusta (Sowerby 1850)
Drillia henekeni (Sowerby 1850)
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Turridae
Turris albida (Perry 1811)
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Clavatulidae
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Terebridae
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Muricidae
Murex cornurectus Guppy 1876
Murex domingensis Sowerby 1850
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Marginellidae
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Harpidae
Morum domingense (Sowerby 1850)
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Volutidae
Lyria pulchella (Sowerby 1850)
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Turbinellidae
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Mitridae
Mitra henekeni Sowerby 1850
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Cancellariidae
Jung and Petit 1990
    = Cancellaria sp. Lamarck 1799
Landau et al. 2012
Gastropoda - Strombidae
Strombus haitensis Sowerby 1850
Strombus bifrons Sowerby 1850
Strombus proximus Sowerby 1850
Gastropoda - Rissoidae
Crepitacella cepula (Guppy 1866)
Gastropoda - Ampullinidae
Amauropsis guppyi (Gabb 1873)
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Architectonicidae
see common names

Geography
Country:Dominican Republic
Coordinates: 19.5° North, 71.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:19.9° North, 70.1° West (Wright 2013)
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 Pliocene
Age range of interval: 5.333 - 3.6 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:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2006-02-24 19:27:35
Creative Commons license:CC0
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]