Where: Dominican Republic (19.5° N, 71.2° W: paleocoordinates 19.4° N, 70.4° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Sandstone Member (Cercado Formation), Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)
• Overlying Formation: Gurabo Formation. Underlying Formation: Unconformably overlies the Baitoa Formation. Thickness: 158m. (Saunders et al., 1986; McNeill et al., 2012; Lutz et al., 2008).
Environment/lithology: shoreface; coarse-grained, shelly/skeletal, silty sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: J. S. H. Collins, R. W. Portell, and S. K. Donovan. 2009. Decapod crustaceans from the Neogene of the Caribbean: diversity, distribution and prospectus. Scripta Geologica 138:55-111 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 228611: authorized by Joanna Wolfe, entered by Arthur Lynch on 17.12.2022
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Malacostraca | |
Hepatus guraboensis Collins 2009 crab | |
Persephona prepunctata Rathbun 1919 crab |