Where: Dominican Republic (19.5° N, 71.1° W: paleocoordinates 19.5° 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 226691: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Rosa Valdez on 20.07.2022, edited by Matthew Clapham

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