Where: Dominican Republic (18.5° N, 70.7° W: paleocoordinates 18.4° N, 69.9° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Yaque Group, Late/Upper Miocene to Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 3.6 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; limestone
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 124780: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 23.02.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Anthozoa | |
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Madracis decactis Lyman 1859 stony coral | |
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? Pocillopora sp. Lamarck 1816 stony coral
Stylophora sp. Schweigger 1819 stony coral | |
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Agaricia sp. Lamarck 1801 stony coral | |
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Goniopora sp. Blainville 1830 stony coral
"Goniopora aff. jacobiana" = Goniopora hilli Vaughan 1919 stony coral
Porites sp. Link 1807 stony coral | |
? Leptomussa sp., Leptomussa sp., "Manicina aff. gyrosa" = Manicina areolata, "Teleiophyllia aff. grandis" = Manicina grandis
? Leptomussa sp. d'Archiardi 1867 stony coral
Leptomussa sp. d'Archiardi 1867 stony coral
"Manicina aff. gyrosa" = Manicina areolata Linnaeus 1758 stony coral
"Teleiophyllia aff. grandis" = Manicina grandis Duncan 1864 stony coral | |
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Eusmilia sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral | |
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Orbicella limbata Duncan 1863 stony coral
"Antillia sp." = Trachyphyllia Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral
"Antillia walli" = Trachyphyllia stony coral | |
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Solenastrea aff. bournoni Milne-Edwards and Haime 1849 stony coral | |