Cercado Formation (unspecified localities): Tortonian, Dominican Republic

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Strombidae
Lobatus vokesae n. sp. Landau et al. 2008
Landau et al. 2008
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Conidae
Conus (Leptoconus) stenostomus (Sowerby 1850)
recombined as Conasprella stenostoma
Conus (Asprella) larvatus (Pilsbry and Johnson 1922)
original and current combination Conus larvatus
Conus (Asprella) prelepidus
Conus (Pyruconus) recognitus Guppy 1867
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]