Where: Dominican Republic (19.8° N, 71.6° W: paleocoordinates 19.8° N, 70.8° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)
• "high in the Miocene, equivalent to Mao Adentro"
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; limestone and sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
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: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 124777: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 23.02.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
"Maeandra sp." = Meandrina
"Maeandra sp." = Meandrina Lamarck 1801 stony coral | |
Favia fragum Esper 1795 stony coral | |
Porites sp. Link 1807 stony coral | |
Siderastrea siderea Ellis and Solander 1786 stony coral | |
Stylophora affinis Duncan 1863 stony coral | |
Stephanocoenia intersepta Esper 1795 stony coral |