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Excerpt from Neogene Paleontology in the Northern Dominican Republic: 8. The Family Muricidae (Mollusca, Gastropoda); 9. The Family Cardiidae (Mollusca, Bivalvia)
From 1976 to 1983 my husband and I spent a total of seven months (in ten trips) collecting the magnificent Dominican fossils. Much of the locality data came from the Maury expedition, in which the field work was done by Axel Olsson and Karl Schmidt. AS Maury (1917, p. 167) Observed, their work involved wading up rivers, carrying heavy packs of fossils, sleeping in the roughest of shanties, and undergoing the greatest dis comforts. In addition to the natural discomforts, the party was harassed by rebels and ultimately had to ¿ee the country for their lives. Considering the conditions under which they worked the amount of information and fossils they collected is amazing. A few years after their labors, political stability was again restored (for a time) and the new government invited the U. S. Geological Survey to come in and conduct a study of the country. This resulted in a comprehensive analysis of the geology (vaughan et al., with many fossil localities enumerated but only brief faunal lists to doc ument the stratigraphy. Nevertheless, the locality in formation proved to be a gold mine for our work.
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