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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Smaragdia viridis Linnaeus 1758 snail | |
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"Prunum maoense" = Marginella maoensis7
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"Chicoreus (Chicoreus) cornurectus" = Chicoreus (Triplex) cornurectus10
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