TU 1411 (Río Guanajuma): Late/Upper Miocene, Dominican Republic

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Caryophylliidae
Asterosmilia abnormalis (Duncan 1864)
Cairns and Wells 1987
Gastropoda - Cerithiidae
Cerithium sp. Bruguière 1789
5 specimens
Gastropoda - Strombidae
Strombus sp. Linnaeus 1758
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Olividae
Olivella sp. Swainson 1831
4 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Buccinidae
Antillophos moorei (Guppy 1866)
14 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Fasciolariidae
Fusinus henekeni (Sowerby 1850)
6 specimens
Fusinus haitensis (Sowerby 1850)
2 specimens
recombined as Fusinus henekeni haitensis
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Columbellidae
Metulella sp. Gabb 1873
4 specimens
Metulella venusta (Sowerby 1850)
19 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Conidae
Conus consorbrinus
5 specimens
Conus symmetricus Sowerby 1849
22 specimens
recombined as Purpuriconus symmetricus
Conus planiliratus Sowerby 1850
28 specimens
recombined as Conasprelloides planiliratus
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Drilliidae
Drillia cercadonsis
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Turridae
Polystira haitensis (Sowerby 1850)
20 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Turbinellidae
Turbinella praetextilis Vokes 1998
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Marginellidae
Marginella sp. Lamarck 1799
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Muricidae
Murex (Haustellum) messorius (Sowerby 1841)
Vokes 1989 29 specimens
recombined as Vokesimurex messorius
Chicoreus (Chicoreus) cornurectus (Guppy 1876)
Vokes 1989
recombined as Chicoreus (Triplex) cornurectus
Chicoreus (Siratus) domingensis (Sowerby 1850)
Vokes 1989 3 specimens
Murex (Haustellum) pennae (Maury 1934)
Vokes 1989
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Volutidae
Lyria (Lyria) pulchella (Sowerby 1850)
12 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Cancellariidae
Cancellaria (Bivetiella) epistomifera Guppy 1876
1 specimen
recombined as Bivetiella epistomifera
Cancellaria (Cancellaria) cf. guppyi (Gabb 1873)
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Personidae
Distorsio mcgintyi Emerson and Puffer 1953
Beu 2010 1 specimen
Distorsio simillima (Sowerby 1850)
Beu 2010 3 specimens
Gastropoda - Cassidae
Sconsia (Sconsia) striata (Lamarck 1816)
2 specimens
replaced by Sconsia grayi
Gastropoda - Ovulidae
Simnia sp. Risso 1826
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Xenophoridae
Xenophora delecta (Guppy 1876)
5 specimens
Gastropoda - Naticidae
Polinices sp. Monfort 1810
1 specimen
Natica (Natica) sp. Scopoli 1777
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Architectonicidae
Architectonica (Architectonica) nobilis (Röding 1798)
2 specimens
original and current combination Architectonica nobilis
Bivalvia - Arcida - Glycymerididae
Tucetona acuticostata (Sowerby 1849)
36 specimens
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Anomiidae
Anomia simplex d'Orbigny 1845
2 specimens
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Argopecten sp. Monterosato 1889
2 specimens
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Hyotissa haitense
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Corbulidae
Caryocorbula sericea (Dall 1898)
Anderson 1996
recombined as Corbula (Caryocorbula) sericea
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Chamidae
Chama involuta Guppy 1873
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
Periglypta sp. Jukes-Browne 1914
1 specimen
see common names

Geography
Country:Dominican Republic
Coordinates: 19.5° North, 71.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:19.5° North, 70.2° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Late/Upper Miocene
Age range of interval:11.60800 - 5.33300 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: AGE: Placed in Late Miocene by enterer on the basis of known age range faunal constituents. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION:
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: unlithified "siliciclastic"
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Unknown, presumably silcicilastic. LITHIFICATION: Unlithified based on observation of figures.
Environment:coastal indet.
Geology comments: ENVIRONMENT: Appearing to be shallow marine siliciclastic environment.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original aragonite,original calcite
Degree of concentration:concentrated
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:bulk,sieve,field collection
Minimum sieve size:4.000
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Museum repositories:PRI
Collection method comments: COLLECTOR: E. Vokes. REPOSITORY: PRI. FIDELITY: Moderate ecological fidelity.
Taxonomic list comments:TAXONOMY: Most taxa Identified by A. Hendy, with some earlier identifications by E. Vokes, P. Jung, H. Vokes, L. Anderson.
Metadata
Database number:74914
Authorizer:A. Hendy, W. Kiessling Enterer:A. Hendy, U. Merkel
Modifier:A. Hendy Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2007-09-05 13:37:57 Last modified:2013-11-25 13:37:23
Access level:authorizer only Released:2009-09-05 13:37:57
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

19909. A. J. W. Hendy, D. P. Buick, K. V. Bulinski, C. A. Ferguson, and A. I. Miller. 2008. Unpublished census data from Atlantic coastal plain and circum-Caribbean Neogene assemblages and taxonomic opinions. [A. Hendy/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]
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]
31716 S. D. Cairns and J. W. Wells. 1987. Neogene paleontology in the northern Dominican Republic, 5. The suborders Caryophylliina and Dendrophylliina (Anthozoa, Scleractinia). Bulletins of American Paleontology 93(328):23-43 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]
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]
25312 E. H. Vokes. 1989. Neogene Paleontology in the Northern Dominican Republic 8. The Family Muricidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Bulletins of American Paleontology. Bulletins of American Paleontology 97(332):1-94 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]