NMB Loc. 16844 - Río Cano [Cercado Fm]: Messinian, Dominican Republic

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Poritidae
Porites convivatoris Foster 1986
Foster 1986
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Mussidae
Manicina jungi Budd and Johnson 1999
Budd and Johnson 1999
Manicina grandis (Duncan 1864)
Budd and Johnson 1999
Manicina geisteri n. sp. Budd and Johnson 1999
Budd and Johnson 1999
Gastropoda - Cerithiidae
Cerithiidae indet. (Fleming 1822)
Jung 1989 36 specimens
Bittium yaguense Gabb 1873
Jung 1989 17 specimens
Gastropoda - Ampullinidae
Pachycrommium sp. Woodring 1928
Jung 1989 56 specimens
Gastropoda - Strombidae
Strombus proximus Sowerby 1850
Freiheit and Geary 2009
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Buccinidae
Cantharus sp. Röding 1798
Jung 1989 1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Columbellidae
Sincola (Sincola) nanniebellae (Maury 1917)
Jung 1989 97 specimens
Parametaria (Dominitaria) islahispaniolae (Maury 1917)
Jung 1994 13 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Melongenidae
Melongena sp. Schumacher 1817
Jung 1989 4 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Terebridae
Terebridae indet. Mörch 1852
Jung 1989 12 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Marginellidae
Prunum maoense (Maury 1917)
Nehm 2001 63 specimens
original and current combination Marginella maoensis
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Muricidae
Thais (Stramonita) quadridentata
Vokes 1989
original and current combination Stramonita
Chicoreus (Chicoreus) cornurectus (Guppy 1876)
Vokes 1989
recombined as Chicoreus (Triplex) cornurectus
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Harpidae
Morum sp. Röding 1798
Jung 1989 1 specimen
Morum (Morum) oniscus (Linnaeaus 1767)
Vokes 1998
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Cancellariidae
Aphera islacolonis (Maury 1917)
Jung and Petit 1990
Cancellaria (Cancellaria) harrisi (Maury 1917)
Jung and Petit 1990
Gastropoda - Cypraeidae
Erosaria spurca (Linnaeus 1758)
Jung 1989 7 specimens
Gastropoda - Naticidae
Naticidae indet. Guilding 1834
Jung 1989 1 specimen
Polinices sp. Monfort 1810
Jung 1989 16 specimens
Neverita (Hypterita) sp. Woodring 1957
Jung 1989 7 specimens
Tectonatica sp. Sacco 1890
Jung 1989 6 specimens
Stigmaulax sp. Morch 1852
Jung 1989 37 specimens
Gastropoda - Vermetidae
Serpulorbis granifer
Jung 1989 11 specimens
Serpulorbis virginicus
Jung 1989 6 specimens
Gastropoda - Triphoridae
Triphoridae indet. Gray 1847
Jung 1989 18 specimens
Gastropoda - Opisthobranchia - Cavoliniidae
Diacria trispinosa (de Blainville 1821)
Janssen 1999 1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neritidae
Smaragdia viridis (Linnaeus 1758)
Costa et al. 2001 21 specimens
Neritina figulopicta (Maury 1917)
Costa et al. 2001 2 specimens
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Argopecten eccentricus (Gabb 1873)
Waller 2011 12 specimens
Antillipecten janicoensis Waller 2011
Waller 2011
Lindapecten plurinominis (Pilsbry and Johnson 1917)
Waller 2011 2 specimens
Bivalvia - Lucinida - Lucinidae
Lucinidae indet. Fleming 1828
Jung 1989 30 specimens
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Corbulidae
Corbula (Panamicorbula) canae Anderson 1996
Anderson 1996
recombined as Panamicorbula canae
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
Trachycardium (Dallocardia) tintinnabularum (Maury 1917)
Vokes 1989
Bivalvia - Carditida - Crassatellidae
Crassatellidae indet. Férussac 1822
Jung 1989 2 specimens
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:estimated from map
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
Regional section:Río Cano Regional bed:3
Regional order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: AGE: direct date from Cheetham et al. (1999). STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: unit C3 (225-280 m).
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified sandstone
Secondary lithology: lithified "limestone"
Lithology description: soft bottom communities of reef-associated grass flats
Environment:coastal indet.
Geology comments: moderate to deep water depth 10-30 m
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some genera,some macrofossils
Collection methods:surface (in situ),peel or thin section,field 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:84983
Authorizer:W. Kiessling, A. Hendy Enterer:U. Merkel, M. Krause, A. Hendy
Modifier:A. Hendy Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2008-11-19 05:17:40 Last modified:2012-11-26 11:10:11
Access level:authorizer only Released:2010-11-19 05:17:40
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]
28516 A. F. Budd and K. G. Johnson. 1999. Neogene Paleontology in the northern Dominican Republic 19: The family Faviidae (Anthozoa, Scleractinia) part II: The genera Caulastraea, Favia, Diploria, Thysanus, Hadrophyllia, Manicina and Colpophyllia. Bulletins of American Paleontology 356:1-83 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]
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]
31838 A. B. Foster. 1986. Neogene paleontology in the northern Dominican Republic, 3. The family Poritidae (Anthozoa, Scleractinia). Bulletins of American Paleontology 90:47-123 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]
29992 J. R. Freiheit and D. H. Geary. 2009. Neogene Paleontology of the Northern Dominican Republic. 23. Strombid Gastropods (Genera Strombus and Lobatus; Mollusca: Gastropoda: Strombidae) of the Cibao Valley. Bulletins of American Paleontology 376:1-54 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]
58961 A. W. Janssen. 1999. Neogene Paleontology in the Northern Dominican Republic 20. Holoplanktonic Mollusks (Gastropoda: Heteropoda and Thecosomata). Bulletins of American Paleontology (358)1-40 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]
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]
42438 P. Jung. 1989. Unpublished notes on Caribbean collection of the Naturhistorisches Museum Basel. [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]
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]
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]
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]
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]