Where: Dominican Republic (18.3° N, 71.4° W: paleocoordinates 18.2° N, 70.6° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Cerros de Sal Formation, Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; sandy claystone
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 124779: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 23.02.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Oulophyllia sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral
Trachyphyllia sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral | |
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Dichocoenia aff. stokesi Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral | |
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Solenastrea bournoni Milne-Edwards and Haime 1849 stony coral | |
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Agaricia sp. Lamarck 1801 stony coral | |
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Porites sp. Link 1807 stony coral | |
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Stylophora sp. Schweigger 1819 stony coral | |