Where: Dominican Republic (19.4° N, 70.7° W: paleocoordinates 19.4° N, 70.1° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Cercado Formation, Messinian (7.2 - 5.3 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Cercado Formation, which unconformably overlies the Baitoa Formation, and is unconformably overlain by the Cercado Formation. AGE: Late Miocene, based on Table 1 of Saunders et al. (1986); late Miocene according to Jung (1994, p. 260); stage age extrapolated from Cheetham et al. (1999). STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within section.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; siltstone
Size class: macrofossils
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 131498: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 26.07.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Smaragdia viridis Linnaeus 1758 snail | |
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"Chicoreus (Chicoreus) cornurectus" = Chicoreus (Triplex) cornurectus4
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Bivalvia | |
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Trigoniocardia (Trigoniocardia) haitensis3 Sowerby 1850 cockle SUBSPECIES: Trigoniocardia (Trigoniocardia) haitensis cercadica
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