USGS 8780 La Barca (Miocene of Dominican Republic)

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
 Scleractinia - Meandrinidae
"Maeandra sp." = Meandrina
"Maeandra sp." = Meandrina Lamarck 1801 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Faviidae
Favia fragum Esper 1795 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Poritidae
Porites sp. Link 1807 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Siderastreidae
Siderastrea siderea Ellis and Solander 1786 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Pocilloporidae
Stylophora affinis Duncan 1863 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Astrocoeniidae
Stephanocoenia intersepta Esper 1795 stony coral