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 | |
Antillocyathus alatus Cairns and Wells 1987 stony coral | |
Pourtalocyathus hispidus Pourtales 1878 stony coral |