USGS 8726 - Rio Yaque del Norte [Baitoa Fm] (Miocene to of Dominican Republic)

Where: Dominican Republic (19.4° N, 70.7° W: paleocoordinates 19.2° N, 69.6° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Baitoa Formation, Early/Lower Miocene to Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 11.6 Ma)

• Baitoa Formation?

• bed-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 93683: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 28.01.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Caryophylliidae
Antillocyathus alatus Cairns and Wells 1987 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Guyniidae
Pourtalocyathus hispidus Pourtales 1878 stony coral