Los Quemados - Zone D: Early/Lower Pliocene, Dominican Republic

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Coralliophilia miocenica
Aspella scalarioides (Blainville 1826)
    = Dermomurex pauperculus Adams 1850
Hendy et al. 2008
Gastropoda - Triphoridae
Triforis calypsonis Maury 1917
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Harpidae
Morum domingense (Sowerby 1850)
recombined as Morum (Oniscidia) domingense
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Volutidae
Strigatella perturbatrix Maury 1917
recombined as Lyria (Enaeta) perturbatrix
Lyria pulchella (Sowerby 1850)
recombined as Lyria (Lyria) pulchella
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Muricidae
Murex praepauxillus Maury 1917
recombined as Chicoreus (Phyllonotus) praepauxillus
Murex messorius Sowerby 1841
recombined as Vokesimurex messorius
Murex cornurectus Guppy 1876
recombined as Chicoreus (Triplex) cornurectus
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Marginellidae
Marginella coniformis Sowerby 1850
recombined as Prunum coniforme
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Clavatulidae
Surcula labiata (Gabb 1873)
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Drilliidae
Drillia venusta (Sowerby 1850)
recombined as Clathrodrillia venusta
Drillia donalbertonis Maury 1917
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Terebridae
Terebra inaequalis Sowerby 1849
recombined as Terebra (Paraterebra) inaequalis
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Clathurellidae
Clathurella vendryesiana Dall 1896
recombined as Euclathurella (Euclathurella) vendryesiana
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Conidae
Conus proteus Hwass 1792
synonym of Conus spurius
Conus olssoni Maury 1917
recombined as Conus (Atlanticonus) olssoni
Conus marginatus Sowerby 1839
recombined as Conus (Leptoconus) marginatus
Conus recognitus Guppy 1867
synonym of Conus (Pyruconus) recognitus
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Costellariidae
Costellaria bullennewtoni Maury 1917
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Turbinellidae
Vasum dominicense (Gabb 1873)
Subspecies: Vasum dominicense gurabicum
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Olividae
Olivella sanctidominici Maury 1917
recombined as Jaspidella sanctidominici
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Columbellidae
Strombina bassi Maury 1917
Nitidella cibaoica (Maury 1917)
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Buccinidae
Phos elegans Guppy 1866
recombined as Antillophos elegans
Phos guppyi Gabb 1873
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Fasciolariidae
Latirus fusiformis Gabb 1873
recombined as Latirus (Polygona) fusiformis
Fusus henekeni Sowerby 1850
recombined as Fusinus henekeni
Subspecies: Fusus henekeni haitensis
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Nassariidae
Alectrion gurabaensis
spelled with current rank as Nassarius (Alectrion)
Alectrion losquemadica Maury 1917
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Mitridae
Mitra quemadica Maury 1917
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Cancellariidae
Trigonostoma gurabis (Maury 1917)
recombined as Ventrilia gurabis
Gastropoda - Pediculariidae
Cypraea gabbiana Guppy 1876
recombined as Jenneria gabbiana
Gastropoda - Cypraeidae
Cypraea dominicensis Gabb 1873
recombined as Luria dominicensis
Cypraea spurcoides Gabb 1873
recombined as Zonaria spurcoides
Gastropoda - Personidae
Distortrix simillima (Sowerby 1850)
recombined as Distorsio simillima
Gastropoda - Bursidae
Bursa bufoniopsis Maury 1917
synonym of Bursa grayana
Gastropoda - Cassidae
Cassis sulcifera Sowerby 1850
Sconsia laevigata (Guppy 1850)
Gastropoda - Ranellidae
Gutturnium gracile (Reeve 1844)
Subspecies: Gutturnium gracile gurabonicum
    = Monoplex gurabonicus Maury 1917
Beu 2010
Gastropoda - Naticidae
Polinices subclausa (Sowerby 1850)
synonym of Polinices hepaticus
Gastropoda - Siliquariidae
Siliquaria gurabaensis
synonym of Tenagodus
Gastropoda - Turritellidae
Turritella submortoni
Turritella tornata Guppy 1917
recombined as Turritella (Bactrospira) altilira tornata
Gastropoda - Cerithiidae
Clava plebeia (Sowerby 1850)
Cerithium gurabense
Cerithium uniseriale
Cerithium russelli
Cerithium microlineatum Gabb 1873
Cerithium dominicense Gabb 1873
Gastropoda - Pseudomelaniidae
Drillia losquemadica Maury 1917
recombined as Crassispira losquemadica
Drillia hispaniolae Maury 1917
recombined as Crassispira (Crassispirella) hispaniolae
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Spondylidae
Spondylus gumanomocon Brown and Pilsbry 1913
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostrea virginica Gmelin 1791
recombined as Crassostrea virginica
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Ostrea haitensis Sowerby 1850
recombined as Hyotissa haitensis
Bivalvia - Arcida - Arcidae
Barbatia cf. bonaczyi Gabb 1873
recombined as Barbatia (Barbatia) bonaczyi
Arca occidentalis Philippi 1847
synonym of Byssoarca zebra
see common names

Geography
Country:Dominican Republic
Coordinates: 19.5° North, 71.2° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:19.5° North, 70.8° 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
Local section:Los Quemados Local bed:412 ft
Local order:bottom to top
Regional section:Rio Gurabo
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: From zone. Section approximately 15 ft thick.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:blue poorly lithified calcareous claystone
Includes fossils?Y
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: Hard, blue calcareous clays.
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. Abundant Cerithium
Metadata
Database number:58821
Authorizer:A. Hendy Enterer:A. Hendy
Modifier:A. Hendy Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2006-02-24 19:45:31 Last modified:2013-11-25 13:37:23
Access level:the public Released:2006-02-24 19:45:31
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:

30037 A. G. Beu. 2010. Neogene Tonnoidean Gastropods of Tropical and South America; contributions to the Dominican Republic and Panama Paleontology Projects and Uplift of the Central American Isthmus. Bulletins of American Paleontology (377-378)1-550 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]
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]