NMB Loc. 16939 - Rio Yaque del Norte [Baitoa Fm] (Miocene of Dominican Republic)

Where: Dominican Republic (19.3° N, 70.7° W: paleocoordinates 19.2° N, 69.6° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Baitoa Formation, Langhian (16.0 - 13.8 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Baitoa Formation, which unconformably underlies the Cercado Formation. AGE: Early Miocene, based on Table 1 of Saunders et al. (1986); direct date from Cheetham et al. (1999). STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From near top of Lopez section.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: perireef or subreef; lithified limestone and lithified siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

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 93773: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 02.02.2010, edited by Austin Hendy

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Faviidae
Solenastrea hyades1 Dana 1846 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Poritidae
Goniopora imperatoris2 Vaughan 1919 stony coral
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae