Where: Dominican Republic (19.5° N, 71.1° W: paleocoordinates 19.4° N, 70.2° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: Cercado or Gurabo Formation; placed in Cercado on the basis of known age: AGE: direct date from Cheetham et al. (1999).

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

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

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 94139: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 10.02.2010, edited by Austin Hendy, Mihaela Krause and Mark Uhen

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