Where: Dominican Republic (19.5° N, 70.8° W: paleocoordinates 19.5° N, 70.4° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Gurabo Formation, Zanclean (5.3 - 3.6 Ma)
• AGE: Gurabo or Baitoa Formation? in original text; direct date from Cheetham et al. (1999).
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: S. D. Cairns and J. W. Wells. 1987. Neogene paleontology in the northern Dominican Republic, 5. The suborders Caryophylliina and Dendrophylliina (Anthozoa, Scleractinia). Bulletins of American Paleontology 93(328):23-43 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 93642: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 27.01.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Anthozoa | |
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Agaricia sp. Lamarck 1801 stony coral
Agaricia dominicensis Vaughan 1919 stony coral | |
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Porites sp. Link 1807 stony coral | |
Asterosmilia sp., Antillocyathus alatus, Placocyathus sp., Placocyathus variabilis, Placocyathus barretti, Deltocyathus italicus
Asterosmilia sp. Duncan 1867 stony coral
Antillocyathus alatus Cairns and Wells 1987 stony coral
Placocyathus sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral
Placocyathus variabilis Duncan 1864 stony coral
Placocyathus barretti Duncan 1863 stony coral
Deltocyathus italicus Michelotti 1838 stony coral | |
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Stylophora granulata Duncan 1864 stony coral | |
Syzygophyllia dentata, "Teleiophyllia sp." = Manicina
Syzygophyllia dentata stony coral
"Teleiophyllia sp." = Manicina Ehrenberg 1834 stony coral | |