El Moro - Limestone cap: Early Pliocene, Dominican Republic
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Mussidae
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Bivalvia
- Arcida
- Glycymerididae
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Glycymeris sp.
Da Costa 1778
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| Originally listed as Glycimeris [=Pecten] | ||||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Pectinida
- Pectinidae
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Conidae
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Geography
| Country: | Dominican Republic |
| Coordinates: | 19.9° North, 71.6° West (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 20.3° North, 70.6° 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: | El Moro | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: The section starts at sea level with claystone and continues for close to 700 ft with alternating claystone, limestones and uncommon sands. At 675-825 ft the section is capped by a limestone, from whence collections were derived. From unknown formation (Possibly Cercado, Gurabo or Mao) at the time of writing. Faunal similarities suggest that this unit is correlated with strata more recently assigned to the Gurabo Fm. | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | white,yellow lithified "limestone" |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: White, yellowish (from weathering) limestone. | |
| Environment: | carbonate indet. |
| Geology comments: No paleoenvironmental data reported by Maury. | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | cast |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | poor |
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: | 58872 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Hendy | Enterer: | A. Hendy |
| Modifier: | A. Hendy | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2006-02-27 11:43:22 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2006-02-27 11:43:22 |
| 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] |