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)
Environment/lithology: lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the NMB
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
• COLLECTOR: Unknown. REPOSITORY: Naturhistorisches Museum Basel, Switzerland (NMB).
Primary reference: A. W. Janssen. 1999. Neogene Paleontology in the Northern Dominican Republic 20. Holoplanktonic Mollusks (Gastropoda: Heteropoda and Thecosomata). Bulletins of American Paleontology (358)1-40 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 181410: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 13.09.2016
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Diacria trispinosa de Blainville 1821 snail |