Amina River, Yaqui Valley (Miocene of Dominican Republic)

Where: Dominican Republic (19.5° N, 71.0° W: paleocoordinates 19.4° N, 70.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Messinian (7.2 - 5.3 Ma)

• Initially assigned to "lower Miocene" but other specimens later found in the Cercado Formation (Collins et al., 2009)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by C.J. Maury in 1916; reposited in the USNM

Primary reference: M. J. Rathbun. 1919. West Indian Tertiary decapod crustaceans. In T. W. Vaughan (ed.), Contributions to the Geology and Paleontology of the West Indies 157-184 [C. Schweitzer/S. Yost/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 135463: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Samantha Yost on 26.10.2012

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Taxonomic list

Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Diogenidae
Petrochirus inequalis n. sp. Rathbun 1919 hermit crab