Cercado Formation (unspecified localities): Tortonian, Dominican Republic
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda
- Strombidae
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Lobatus vokesae n. sp.
Landau et al. 2008
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Landau et al. 2008 | ||||||
Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Conidae
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Conus (Leptoconus) stenostomus
(Sowerby 1850)
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recombined as Conasprella stenostoma | |||||||
Conus (Asprella) larvatus
(Pilsbry and Johnson 1922)
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original and current combination Conus larvatus | |||||||
Conus (Asprella) prelepidus
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Conus (Pyruconus) recognitus
Guppy 1867
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see common names |
Geography
Country: | Dominican Republic |
Coordinates: | 19.5° North, 71.3° West (view map) |
Paleocoordinates: | 19.5° North, 70.4° West |
Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
Geographic resolution: | basin |
Time
Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
Stage: | Tortonian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
Key time interval: | Tortonian | ||
Age range of interval: | 11.62000 - 7.24600 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Cercado | ||||
Stratigraphic resolution: | formation | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From Cercado Fm, which unconformably overlie Baitoa, and is overlain by the Gurabo Fm. AGE: Late Miocene. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Unknown position within section. |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | unlithified "siliciclastic" |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Lithology description: SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Unknown, presumably silcicilastic. LITHIFICATION: Poorly lithified based on observation of figures. | |
Environment: | coastal indet. |
Geology comments: ENVIRONMENT: Appearing to be shallow marine siliciclastic environment. |
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: | field collection |
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Museum repositories: | NHMW |
Collection method comments: COLLECTOR: Not stated in text. REPOSITORY: NHMW. | |
Taxonomic list comments:COVERAGE: Limited to taxon described in text. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication, with modern nomenclature and species-resolution identification. |
Metadata
Database number: | 89169 | ||
Authorizer: | A. Hendy | Enterer: | A. Hendy |
Modifier: | A. Hendy | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
Created: | 2009-05-08 08:24:59 | Last modified: | 2013-11-25 13:37:23 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2009-05-08 08:24:59 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
31112. | E. J. Petuch. 1988. Neogene History of Tropical American Mollusks 1-217 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy] |
Secondary references:
29916 | B. M. Landau, G. C. Kronenberg, and G. S. Herbert. 2008. A large species of Lobatus (Gastropoda: Strombidae) from the Neogene of the Dominican Republic, with notes on the genus. The Veliger 50(1):31-38 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy] |