NMB Loc. 16914 - Rio Mao [Cercado Fm]: Tortonian, Dominican Republic

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Mussidae
Manicina grandis (Duncan 1864)
Budd and Johnson 1999
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Muricidae
Chicoreus (Chicoreus) cornurectus (Guppy 1876)
Vokes 1989
recombined as Chicoreus (Triplex) cornurectus
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Marginellidae
Prunum maoense (Maury 1917)
Nehm 2001 7 specimens
original and current combination Marginella maoensis
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Cancellariidae
Cancellaria (Bivetiella) bajonensis Jung and Petit 1990
Jung and Petit 1990
recombined as Bivetiella bajonensis
Gastropoda - Tonnidae
Malea camura Guppy 1866
Beu 2010 2 specimens
Gastropoda - Cassidae
Semicassis reclusa (Guppy 1873)
Beu 2010 1 specimen
Cassis sulcifera Sowerby 1850
Beu 2010 2 specimens
Gastropoda - Neritidae
Smaragdia viridis (Linnaeus 1758)
6 specimens
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
Trigoniocardia (Trigoniocardia) haitensis (Sowerby 1850)
Vokes 1989
Trachycardium (Mexicardia) dominicanum (Dall 1900)
Vokes 1989
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Argopecten eccentricus (Gabb 1873)
Waller 2011 96 specimens
Leptopecten thompsoni (Maury 1917)
Waller 2011 1 specimen
see common names

Geography
Country:Dominican Republic
Coordinates: 19.5° North, 71.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:19.4° North, 70.2° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
Stage:Tortonian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Tortonian
Age range of interval:11.63000 - 7.24600 m.y. ago
Age estimate:7.6 Ma (age-depth)
Stratigraphy
Formation:Cercado
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: Cercado or Gurabo Formation; placed in Cercado on the basis of age. AGE: direct date from Cheetham et al. (1999)
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified siltstone
Secondary lithology: lithified "limestone"
Environment:perireef or subreef
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:94141
Authorizer:W. Kiessling, A. Hendy Enterer:U. Merkel, A. Hendy
Modifier:A. Hendy Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2010-02-10 01:33:37 Last modified:2012-12-07 10:11:42
Access level:the public Released:2010-02-10 01:33:37
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]
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]
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]
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]