NMB Loc. 16846 - Río Cano [Cercado Fm]: Messinian, Dominican Republic

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Neritidae
Smaragdia viridis (Linnaeus 1758)
Costa et al. 2001 1 specimen
Neritina figulopicta (Maury 1917)
Costa et al. 2001 6 specimens
Gastropoda - Cerithiidae
Cerithiidae indet. (Fleming 1822)
Jung 1989 62 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Melongenidae
Melongena sp. Schumacher 1817
Jung 1989 5 specimens
Gastropoda - Triphoridae
Triphoridae indet. Gray 1847
Jung 1989 1 specimen
Bivalvia - Lucinida - Lucinidae
Lucinidae indet. Fleming 1828
Jung 1989 12 specimens
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Corbulidae
Corbula (Panamicorbula) sp. (Pilsbry 1932)
Anderson 1996
original and current combination Panamicorbula
see common names

Geography
Country:Dominican Republic
Coordinates: 19.5° North, 71.3° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:19.5° North, 70.7° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
Stage:Messinian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Messinian
Age range of interval:7.24600 - 5.33300 m.y. ago
Age estimate:6.5 Ma (age-depth)
Stratigraphy
Formation:Cercado
Local section:Río Cano Local bed:228 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 extrapolated from Cheethan et al. (1999). STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From 228 m above base of section.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:shelly/skeletal siltstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: LITHIFICATION: Unknown. LITHOLOGY: matrix silty, irregularly bedded.
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Spatial orientation:random
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:131457
Authorizer:A. Hendy Enterer:A. Hendy
Modifier:A. Hendy Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2012-07-25 10:57:40 Last modified:2013-11-25 13:37:23
Access level:authorizer only Released:2014-07-25 10:57:40
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:

24475 L. C. Anderson. 1996. Neogene Paleontology in the Northern Dominican Republic 16. The Family Corbulidae (Mollusca: Bivalvia). Bulletins of American Paleontology 110(351):5-34 [A. Hendy/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]