PBDB Collection

NMB Loc. 16836 - Río Cano [Gurabo Fm]: Messinian, Dominican Republic

List of taxa

Where & when

Geology

Taphonomy & methods

Metadata & references

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda - Ampullinidae

	Pachycrommium sp. Woodring 1928	Jung 1989	14 specimens
Gastropoda - Cerithiidae

	Cerithium sp. Bruguière 1789	Jung 1989	81 specimens

	Cerithium venustum Gabb 1873	Jung 1989	3 specimens
Gastropoda - Naticidae

	Natica sp. Scopoli 1777	Jung 1989	1 specimen

	Stigmaulax sp. Morch 1852	Jung 1989	1 specimen

	Tectonatica sp. Sacco 1890	Jung 1989	5 specimens
Gastropoda - Triphoridae

	Triphoridae indet. Gray 1847	Jung 1989	26 specimens
Gastropoda - Vermetidae

	Petaloconchus domingensis Sowerby 1849	Jung 1989	12 specimens

	Petaloconchus floridanus Olsson and Harbison 1953	Jung 1989	6 specimens

	Serpulorbis granifer	Jung 1989	38 specimens

	Serpulorbis virginicus	Jung 1989	25 specimens
Gastropoda - Personidae

	Distorsio simillima (Sowerby 1850)	Beu 2010	1 specimen
Gastropoda - Cypraeidae

	Erosaria spurca (Linnaeus 1758)	Jung 1989	1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Buccinidae

	Cantharus sp. Röding 1798	Jung 1989	4 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Columbellidae

	Parametaria (Dominitaria) islahispaniolae (Maury 1917)	Jung 1994	7 specimens

	Bifurcium canae	Jung 1994	3 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Marginellidae

	Prunum maoense (Maury 1917)	Nehm 2001	6 specimens
	original and current combination Marginella maoensis
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Muricidae

	Chicoreus (Chicoreus) cornurectus (Guppy 1876)	Vokes 1989
	recombined as Chicoreus (Triplex) cornurectus

	Spinidrupa radwini	Vokes 1989
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Terebridae

	Terebridae indet. Mörch 1852	Jung 1989	4 specimens
Gastropoda - Hipponicidae

	Hipponix sp. (Defrance 1819)	Jung 1989	21 specimens
Gastropoda - Opisthobranchia - Cavoliniidae

	Diacria trispinosa (de Blainville 1821)	Janssen 1999	1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neritidae

	Smaragdia viridis (Linnaeus 1758)	Costa et al. 2001	8 specimens
Gastropoda - Juliidae

	Julia sp. Gould 1862	Jung 1989	3 specimens
Bivalvia - Lucinida - Lucinidae

	Lucinidae indet. Fleming 1828	Jung 1989	17 specimens
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae

	Euvola soror (Gabb 1873)	Waller 2011	1 specimen

	Argopecten eccentricus (Gabb 1873)	Waller 2011	7 specimens

	Lindapecten plurinominis (Pilsbry and Johnson 1917)	Waller 2011	1 specimen
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Faviidae

	Thysanus navicula (Duncan 1864)	Budd and Johnson 1999
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Poritidae

	Porites convivatoris Foster 1986	Foster 1986
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:	6.4 Ma (age-depth)

Stratigraphy

Formation:	Gurabo
Local section:	Río Cano	Local bed:	240 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), sample ca. 240 m above base; late Miocene according to Jung (1994, p. 259).

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 methods:	peel or thin section,field collection
Reason for describing collection:	taxonomic analysis

Metadata

Database number:	84984
Authorizer:	W. Kiessling, A. Hendy	Enterer:	U. Merkel, M. Krause, A. Hendy
Modifier:	A. Hendy	Research group:	marine invertebrate
Created:	2008-11-19 05:20:40	Last modified:	2012-11-26 11:18:12
Access level:	authorizer only	Released:	2010-11-19 05:20:40
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:

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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]