Where: Dominican Republic (19.5° N, 71.1° W: paleocoordinates 19.5° N, 70.2° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Cercado Formation, Tortonian (11.6 - 7.2 Ma)

• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: Gurabo Formation?; placed in Cercado Fm by enterer on the basis of age. AGE: Late Miocene or early Pliocene, according to Waller (2011); direct date from Cheetham et al. (1999).

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified siliciclastic sediments and lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. B. Saunders, P. Jung, and B. Biju-Duval. 1986. Neogene Paleontology in the Northern Dominican Republic: 1. Field Surveys, Lithology, Environment, and Age. Bulletins of American Paleontology 89(323):1-79 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 93686: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 28.01.2010, edited by Austin Hendy

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