Where: Dominican Republic (19.5° N, 71.1° W: paleocoordinates 19.4° N, 70.5° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Cercado Formation, Messinian (7.2 - 5.3 Ma)
• Originally assigned to the lower Miocene, but strontium isotope dating indicates a Messinian age (Ortega-Ariza et al. 2015).
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by T.W. Vaughan, C.W. Cooke; reposited in the USNM
Primary reference: M. J. Rathbun. 1920. Additions to West Indian Tertiary decapod crustaceans. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 58:381-384 [C. Schweitzer/S. Yost/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 135731: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Samantha Yost on 06.11.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Malacostraca | |
Nephrops maoensis n. sp.
Nephrops maoensis n. sp. Rathbun 1920 clawed lobster |