Los Quemados - Zone C: Early Pliocene, Dominican Republic
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Echinoidea
- Clypeasteroida
- Clypeasteridae
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Clypeaster caudatus
Jackson 1922
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Bivalvia
- Pectinida
- Pectinidae
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Gastropoda
- Cassidae
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Cassis sulcifera
Sowerby 1850
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Conidae
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Geography
| Country: | Dominican Republic |
| Coordinates: | 19.5° North, 71.2° West (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 19.9° North, 70.2° 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 | ||||
| Local section: | Los Quemados | Local bed: | 405 ft | ||
| Local order: | bottom to top | ||||
| Regional section: | Rio Gurabo | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: From zone C. Section approximately 10 ft thick. Prominent limestone horizon at top of section. | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | poorly lithified claystone |
| Secondary lithology: | poorly lithified "limestone" |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: Alternating clays and limestones, with a rather heavy bed of the latter above. | |
| Environment: | offshore |
| Geology comments: No paleoenvironmental data reported by Maury. | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,original aragonite |
| 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:Identifications to species level, though antiquated genus-level nomenclature. | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 58820 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Hendy | Enterer: | A. Hendy |
| Modifier: | A. Hendy | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2006-02-24 19:43:44 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2006-02-24 19:43:44 |
| 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] |