AMNH PR 87-4: Aquitanian, Puerto Rico
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Sirenia
- Dugongidae
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Metaxytherium cf. calvertense
Kellogg 1966
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= Dugonginae indet.
Gray 1821
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Domning 2001 | ||||||
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= Dugonginae indet.
Gray 1821
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Domning 2018 | ||||||
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Puerto Rico |
| Coordinates: | 18.4° North, 66.3° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 18.0° North, 65.2° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
| Stage: | Aquitanian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 5 |
| Key time interval: | Aquitanian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 23.03000 - 20.44000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Cibao |
Lithology and environment
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,original phosphate |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | selective quarrying,surface (in situ),field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
| Museum repositories: | AMNH |
Metadata
| Database number: | 56977 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen |
| Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2005-11-30 06:58:57 | Last modified: | 2005-11-30 09:00:43 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2005-11-30 06:58:57 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 15365. | R. D. E. MacPhee and A. R. Wyss. 1990. Oligo-Miocene vertebrates from Puerto Rico, with a catalog of localities. American Museum Novitates 2965:1-45 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |
Secondary references:
| 42600 | D. P. Domning. 2001. Sirenians, seagrasses, and Cenozoic ecological change in the Caribbean. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 166:27-50 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
| 66884 | D. P. Domning. 2018. Fossil Sirenia (Mammalia) of the Miocene Chesapeake Group, Eastern United States. In S. J. Godfrey (ed.), Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 100:241-265 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |