NMB Loc. 16848 - Río Cano [Cercado Fm] (Miocene of Dominican Republic)

Where: Dominican Republic (19.5° N, 71.3° W: paleocoordinates 19.5° N, 70.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Cercado Formation, Messinian (7.2 - 5.3 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From Cercado Formation, which unconformably overlies the Baitoa Formation, and is overlain by the Gurabo Formation. AGE: Late Miocene, based on Table 1 of Saunders et al. (1986); direct date extrapolated from Cheethan et al. (1999). STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From 228 m above base of section.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; shelly/skeletal siltstone

• LITHIFICATION: Unknown. LITHOLOGY: matrix silty, irregularly bedded.

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the NMB

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• COLLECTOR: Unknown. REPOSITORY: Naturhistorisches Museum Basel, Switzerland (NMB).

Primary reference: 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]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 131458: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 25.07.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication, with species-resolution identifications, and modern nomenclature. COVERAGE: Limited to taxa described in text.
Bivalvia
 Lucinida - Lucinidae
Lucinidae indet.2 Fleming 1828 clam
Gastropoda
 Neritoidea - Neritidae
Neritina figulopicta1 Maury 1917 snail
 Neogastropoda - Muricidae
Chicoreus (Naquetia) compactus4 Gabb 1873 murex snail
 Neogastropoda - Marginellidae
"Prunum maoense" = Marginella maoensis3
"Prunum maoense" = Marginella maoensis3 Maury 1917 margin shell
 Neogastropoda - Melongenidae
Melongena sp.2 Schumacher 1817 snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Naticidae
Naticidae indet.2 Guilding 1834 moon snail
 Cerithioidea - Cerithiidae
Cerithiidae indet.2 Fleming 1822 cerith snail