Where: Dominican Republic (19.3° N, 70.7° W: paleocoordinates 19.2° N, 69.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Baitoa Formation, Burdigalian (20.4 - 16.0 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 9 m in Rio Yaque del Norte 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 93774: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 02.02.2010, edited by Austin Hendy

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