Also known as DC 11
Where: Dominican Republic (18.5° N, 69.3° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 18.6° N, 69.1° W (Wright 2013)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: Unknown lithosratigraphy. From limestone underlying San Pedro de MacorĂs. AGE: Undifferentiated Pleistocene. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Unknown position within section.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Condit; reposited in the USNM
• COLLECTOR: D. C. Condit. 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 75418: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 09.10.2007, edited by Uta Merkel and Wolfgang Kiessling
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Ostrea sp. Linnaeus 1758 oyster | |
Anthozoa | |
"Agaricia purpurea" = Agaricia agaricites
"Agaricia purpurea" = Agaricia agaricites Linnaeus 1758 stony coral | |
Siderastrea siderea Ellis and Solander 1786 stony coral | |
Porites astreoides Lamarck 1816 stony coral
Porites porites Pallas 1766 stony coral | |
Acropora cervicornis Lamarck 1816 stony coral | |
Stephanocoenia intersepta Esper 1795 stony coral | |
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Dichocoenia stokesi Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral | |
"Manicina gyrosa" = Manicina areolata
"Manicina gyrosa" = Manicina areolata Linnaeus 1758 stony coral |