NMB Loc. 16865 - Rio Cana [Gurabo Fm]: Zanclean, Dominican Republic

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Cassidae
Cypraecassis testiculus (Linnaeus 1758)
Beu 2010 1 specimen
Cassis sulcifera Sowerby 1850
Beu 2010 7 specimens
Gastropoda - Tonnidae
Malea camura Guppy 1866
Beu 2010 1 specimen
Gastropoda - Personidae
Distorsio simillima (Sowerby 1850)
Beu 2010 9 specimens
Gastropoda - Strombidae
Lobatus haitensis (Sowerby 1850)
Freiheit and Geary 2009
Lobatus galliformis (Pilsbry 1917)
Freiheit and Geary 2009
Strombus proximus Sowerby 1850
Freiheit and Geary 2009
Strombus bifrons Sowerby 1850
Freiheit and Geary 2009
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Marginellidae
Prunum coniforme (Sowerby 1850)
Nehm 2001 7 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Volutidae
Lyria (Lyria) pulchella (Sowerby 1850)
Vokes 1998
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Muricidae
Chicoreus (Siratus) domingensis (Sowerby 1850)
Vokes 1989
Favartia (Pygmaepterys) germainae Vokes and D'Attilio 1980
Vokes 1989
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Amusium papyraceum (Gabb 1873)
Waller 2011 11 specimens
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Spondylidae
Spondylus bostrychites Guppy 1867
Vokes and Vokes 1992
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Mussidae
Manicina grandis (Duncan 1864)
Budd and Johnson 1999
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Astrocoeniidae
Stephanocoenia spongiformis (Duncan 1864)
Foster 1987
see common names

Geography
Country:Dominican Republic
Coordinates: 19.6° North, 71.3° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:19.5° North, 70.9° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Pliocene
Stage:Zanclean 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Zanclean
Age range of interval:5.33300 - 3.60000 m.y. ago
Age estimate:3.8 Ma (age-depth)
Stratigraphy
Formation:Gurabo
Local section:Río Cano Local bed:431 m
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: AGE: Late Miocene or early Pliocene, according to Waller (2011); direct date from Cheetham et al. (1999). STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: unit C7 (425-440 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 methods:peel or thin section,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:94102
Authorizer:W. Kiessling, A. Hendy Enterer:U. Merkel, A. Hendy
Modifier:A. Hendy Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2010-02-09 06:11:32 Last modified:2012-11-26 10:54:18
Access level:the public Released:2010-02-09 06:11:32
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]
31880 A. B. Foster. 1987. Neogene paleontology in the northern Dominican Republic, 4. The genus Stephanocoenia (Anthozoa, Scleractinia, Astrocoeniidae). Bulletins of American Paleontology 93:5-22 [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]
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]
18705 H. E. Vokes and E.H. Vokes. 1992. Neogene Paleontology in the northern Dominican Republic: The Genus Spondylus (Bivalvia: Spondylidae). Bulletins of American Paleontology 102(339):1-40 [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]