PBDB Collection

NMB Loc. 15912 - Río Gurabo [Cercado Fm]: Tortonian, Dominican Republic

List of taxa

Where & when

Geology

Taphonomy & methods

Metadata & references

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda - Cerithiidae

	Cerithiidae indet. (Fleming 1822)	Jung 1989	5 specimens

	Cerithium sp. Bruguière 1789	Jung 1989	1 specimen

	Cerithium obesum Guppy 1876	Jung 1989	1 specimen

	Cerithium venustum Gabb 1873	Jung 1989	1 specimen

	Cerithium dominicense Gabb 1873	Jung 1989	1 specimen
Gastropoda - Naticidae

	Polinices sp. Monfort 1810	Jung 1989	287 specimens

	Tectonatica sp. Sacco 1890	Jung 1989	3 specimens

	Stigmaulax sp. Morch 1852	Jung 1989	175 specimens
Gastropoda - Hipponicidae

	Hipponix sp. (Defrance 1819)	Jung 1989	1 specimen
Gastropoda - Ficidae

	Ficus gibsonsmithi Beu 2010	Beu 2010	7 specimens
Gastropoda - Cassidae

	Semicassis reclusa (Guppy 1873)	Beu 2010	3 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Marginellidae

	Prunum maoense (Maury 1917)	Nehm 2001	3 specimens
	original and current combination Marginella maoensis
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Turbinellidae

	Turbinella praelaevigata Vokes 1964	Vokes 1998
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Terebridae

	Terebridae indet. Mörch 1852	Jung 1989	193 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Columbellidae

	Columbella submercatoria Olsson 1922	Jung 1994	1 specimen

	Sincola (Sincola) gurabensis (Maury 1917)	Jung 1989	477 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Fasciolariidae

	Fusinus henekeni (Sowerby 1850)	Jung 1989	2 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Melongenidae

	Melongena sp. Schumacher 1817	Jung 1989	1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Cancellariidae

	Cancellaria (Hertleinia) miranda Jung and Petit 1990	Jung and Petit 1990
	recombined as Hertleinia miranda

	Cancellaria (Bivetiella) epistomifera (Guppy 1876)	Jung and Petit 1990
	recombined as Bivetiella epistomifera

	Cancellaria (Cancellaria) juncta (Jung and Petit 1990)	Jung and Petit 1990

	Cancellaria (Cancellaria) guppyi (Gabb 1873)	Jung and Petit 1990
Gastropoda - Vermetidae

	Serpulorbis papulosus (Guppy 1866)	Jung 1989	1 specimen

	Petaloconchus floridanus Olsson and Harbison 1953	Jung 1989	3 specimens
Gastropoda - Neotaenioglossa - Calyptraeidae

	Crucibulum (Dispotaea) sp. (Say 1824)	Jung 1989	21 specimens
Gastropoda - Ampullinidae

	Pachycrommium sp. Woodring 1928	Jung 1989	3 specimens
Gastropoda - Neritidae

	Smaragdia viridis (Linnaeus 1758)	Costa et al. 2001	5 specimens

	Neritina figulopicta (Maury 1917)	Costa et al. 2001	1 specimen
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae

	Trachycardium (Trachycardium) flexicostatum	Vokes 1989
Bivalvia - Lucinida - Lucinidae

	Lucinidae indet. Fleming 1828	Jung 1989	90 specimens
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae

	Argopecten eccentricus (Gabb 1873)	Waller 2011	125 specimens
see common names

Geography

Country:	Dominican Republic
Coordinates:	19.3° North, 71.7° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:	19.3° North, 70.8° West
Basis of coordinate:	estimated from map
Geographic resolution:	small collection

Time

Period:	Neogene	Epoch:	Miocene
Stage:	Tortonian	10 m.y. bin:	Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:	Tortonian
Age range of interval:	11.63000 - 7.24600 m.y. ago
Age estimate:	7.9 Ma (age-depth)

Stratigraphy

Formation:	Cercado
Local section:	Río Gurabo	Local bed:	105 m
Local order:	bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:	bed
Stratigraphy comments: STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From Cercado Formation, which unconformably overlies the Baitoa Formation, and is overlain by the Gurabo Formation. AGE: Late Miocene, based on Table 1 of Saunders et al. (1986); direct date from Cheetham et al. (1999). STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From 105 m above the base of the section.

Lithology and environment

Primary lithology:	not reported
Environment:	marine indet.

Taphonomy

Modes of preservation:	body
Size of fossils:	macrofossils

Collection methods and comments

Collection excludes:	some genera,some macrofossils
Collection methods:	surface (in situ),survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:	taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:	NMB
Collection method comments: COLLECTOR: Unknown. REPOSITORY: Naturhistorisches Museum Basel, Switzerland (NMB).
Taxonomic list comments:NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication, with species-resolution identifications, and modern nomenclature. COVERAGE: Limited to taxa described in text.

Metadata

Database number:	131379
Authorizer:	A. Hendy	Enterer:	A. Hendy
Modifier:	A. Hendy	Research group:	marine invertebrate
Created:	2012-07-24 12:42:20	Last modified:	2013-11-25 13:37:23
Access level:	authorizer only	Released:	2014-07-24 12:42:20
Creative Commons license:	CC BY

Reference information

Primary reference:

25313.

J. B. Saunders, P. Jung, and B. Biju-Duval. 1986. Neogene Paleontology in the Northern Dominican Republic: 1. Field Surveys, Lithology, Environment, and Age. Bulletins of American Paleontology 89(323):1-79 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]

Secondary references:

30037		A. G. Beu. 2010. Neogene Tonnoidean Gastropods of Tropical and South America; contributions to the Dominican Republic and Panama Paleontology Projects and Uplift of the Central American Isthmus. Bulletins of American Paleontology (377-378)1-550 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]
43588		A. H. Cheetham and J. B. C. Jackson. 1999. Neogene cheilostome Bryozoa of tropical America: Comparison and contrast between the Central American Isthmus (Panama, Costa Rica) and the north-central Caribbean (Dominican Republic). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History (357)159-192 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]
26933		F. H. A. Costa, R. H. Neim, and C. S. Hickman. 2001. Neogene paleontology in the Northern Dominican Republic. 22. The family Neritidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Bulletins of American Paleontology 359:47-71 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/P. Wagner]
42438		P. Jung. 1989. Unpublished notes on Caribbean collection of the Naturhistorisches Museum Basel. [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]
26828		P. Jung. 1989. Revision of the Strombina-group (Gastropoda; Columbellidae), fossil and living. Schweierische Paläontologische Abhandlungen 111:1-298 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]
19070		P. Jung. 1994. Neogene Paleontology in the Northern Dominican Republic 15. The Genera Columbella, Eurypyrene, Parametaria, Conella, Nitidella, and Metulella (Gastropoda: Columbellidae). Bulletins of American Paleontology 106(344):1-45 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]
43555		P. Jung and R. E. Petit. 1990. Neogene paleontology in the northern Dominican Republic, 10. The family Cancellariidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Bulletins of American Paleontology 98(334):87-144 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]
42446		R. H. Nehm. 2001. Neogene paleontology in the Northern Dominican Republic. 21. The genus Prunum (Gastropoda: Marginellidae). Bulletins of American Paleontology (359)1-46 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]
26932		R. H. Nehm. 2001. Neogene paleontology in the northern Dominican Republic. Part 21. The Genus Prunum (Gastropoda: Marginellidae). Bulletins of American Paleontology (359)1-46 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]
18707		E. H. Vokes. 1998. Neogene Paleontology in the Northern Dominican Republic 18. The Superfamily Volutacea (in part) (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Bulletins of American Paleontology 113(354):1-54 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]
24476		H. E. Vokes. 1989. Neogene Paleontology in the Northern Dominican Republic 9. The Family Cardiidae (Mollusca: Bivalvia). Bulletins of American Paleontology 97(332):95-161 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]
37262		T. R. Waller. 2011. Neogene Paleontology of the Northern Dominican Republic. 24. Propeamussidae and Pectinidae (Mollusca: Bivalvia: Pectinoidea) of the Cibao Valley. Bulletins of American Paleontology (381)1-198 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]