PBDB Collection

NMB Loc. 15833 - Rio Gurabo [Mao Fm]: Piacenzian, Dominican Republic

List of taxa

Where & when

Geology

Taphonomy & methods

Metadata & references

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Caryophylliidae

	Asterosmilia profunda (Duncan 1864)	Cairns and Wells 1987

	Paracyathus sinuosus n. sp. Cairns and Wells 1987	Cairns and Wells 1987
Gastropoda - Opisthobranchia - Cavoliniidae

	Diacria trispinosa (de Blainville 1821)	Janssen 1999	1 fragment

	Cavolinia cf. tridentata (Niebuhr 1775)	Janssen 1999	1 specimen
Gastropoda - Ampullinidae

	Pachycrommium sp. Woodring 1928	Jung 1989	7 specimens
Gastropoda - Hipponicidae

	Hipponix sp. (Defrance 1819)	Jung 1989	50 specimens
Gastropoda - Vermetidae

	Petaloconchus floridanus Olsson and Harbison 1953	Jung 1989	3 specimens

	Petaloconchus laddfranklinae Maury 1917	Jung 1989	160 specimens

	Serpulorbis papulosus (Guppy 1866)	Jung 1989	3 specimens
Gastropoda - Naticidae

	Sinum sp. Röding 1798	Jung 1989	1 specimen

	Polinices sp. Monfort 1810	Jung 1989	3 specimens

	Natica sp. Scopoli 1777	Jung 1989	1 specimen
Gastropoda - Strombidae

	Strombus proximus Sowerby 1850	Freiheit and Geary 2009
Gastropoda - Ficidae

	Ficus bernardi Beu 2010	Beu 2010	1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Terebridae

	Terebridae indet. Mörch 1852	Jung 1989	3 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Harpidae

	Morum (Oniscidia) domingense (Sowerby 1850)	Vokes 1998
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Volutidae

	Lyria (Lyria) pulchella (Sowerby 1850)	Vokes 1998
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Muricidae

	Typhis (Talityphis) expansus (Sowerby 1874)	Vokes 1989
	recombined as Typhina expansa

	Chicoreus (Siratus) articulatus (Reeve 1845)	Vokes 1989

	Chicoreus (Siratus) formosus (Sowerby 1841)	Vokes 1989

	Siphonochelus (Siphonochelus) cercadicus (Maury 1917)	Vokes 1989
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Buccinidae

	Tritiaria (Antillophos) moorei (Guppy 1866)	Jung 1989	13 specimens

	Cantharus sp. Röding 1798	Jung 1989	5 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Columbellidae

	Strombina (Spiralta) guppyi (Woodring 1928)	Jung 1989	1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Nassariidae

	Phos (Strongylocera) fasciolatus Dall 1896	Jung 1989	1 specimen
	synonym of Pallacera guadelupensis
Gastropoda - Cassidae

	Sconsia laevigata (Guppy 1850)	Beu 2010	6 specimens
Gastropoda - Bursidae

	Marsupina bufo (Bruguiére 1792)	Beu 2010	1 specimen
Gastropoda - Triphoridae

	Triphoridae indet. Gray 1847	Jung 1989	1 specimen
Gastropoda - Cerithiidae

	Cerithiidae indet. (Fleming 1822)	Jung 1989	1 specimen

	Cerithium sp. Bruguière 1789	Jung 1989	1 specimen

	Cerithium microlineatum Gabb 1873	Jung 1989	1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neritidae

	Nerita fulgurans Gmelin 1791	Costa et al. 2001	1 specimen
	recombined as Nerita (Theliostyla) fulgurans
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae

	Zamorapecten maoensis Waller 2011	Waller 2011	1 specimen
Bivalvia - Carditida - Crassatellidae

	Crassatellidae indet. Férussac 1822	Jung 1989	2 specimens
Bivalvia - Lucinida - Lucinidae

	Lucinidae indet. Fleming 1828	Jung 1989	4 specimens
see common names

Geography

Country:	Dominican Republic
Coordinates:	19.6° North, 71.2° 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:	Piacenzian	10 m.y. bin:	Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:	Piacenzian
Age range of interval:	3.60000 - 2.58000 m.y. ago
Age estimate:	3.4 Ma (age-depth)

Stratigraphy

Formation:	Mao
Local section:	Rio Gurabo	Local bed:	892 m
Local order:	bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:	bed
Stratigraphy comments: LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: From Mao Formation, for which lithostratigraphic relationships are not discussed. AGE: Early Pliocene in Saunders (1986); middle-late Pliocene in Jung (1989); direct date from Cheetham et al. (1999). STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From 892 m above base of section.

Lithology and environment

Primary lithology:	lithified "limestone"
Includes fossils?	Y
Environment:	offshore indet.
Geology comments: outer shelf or slope setting

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:	NMB
Collection method comments: COLLECTOR: Unknown. REPOSITORY: Naturhistorisches Museum Basel, Switzerland (NMB).
Taxonomic list comments:NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication, with species-resolution identifications, and modern nomenclature. COVERAGE: Limited to taxa described in text.

Metadata

Database number:	93612
Authorizer:	W. Kiessling, A. Hendy	Enterer:	U. Merkel, M. Krause, A. Hendy
Modifier:	A. Hendy	Research group:	marine invertebrate
Created:	2010-01-26 05:56:44	Last modified:	2012-11-23 15:00:45
Access level:	the public	Released:	2010-01-26 05:56:44
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]
31716		S. D. Cairns and J. W. Wells. 1987. Neogene paleontology in the northern Dominican Republic, 5. The suborders Caryophylliina and Dendrophylliina (Anthozoa, Scleractinia). Bulletins of American Paleontology 93(328):23-43 [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]
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]
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]
26828		P. Jung. 1989. Revision of the Strombina-group (Gastropoda; Columbellidae), fossil and living. Schweierische Paläontologische Abhandlungen 111:1-298 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]
42438		P. Jung. 1989. Unpublished notes on Caribbean collection of the Naturhistorisches Museum Basel. [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]
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]