NMB Loc. 16916 - Rio Mao [Cercado Fm]: Tortonian, Dominican Republic

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Cassidae
Cassis sulcifera Sowerby 1850
Beu 2010 4 specimens
Gastropoda - Ranellidae
Turritriton domingensis (Gabb 1873)
Beu 2010 1 specimen
Gastropoda - Tonnidae
Malea camura Guppy 1866
Beu 2010 11 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Cancellariidae
Cancellaria (Cancellaria) guppyi (Gabb 1873)
Jung and Petit 1990
Cancellaria (Bivetiella) bajonensis Jung and Petit 1990
Jung and Petit 1990
recombined as Bivetiella bajonensis
Aphera islacolonis (Maury 1917)
Jung and Petit 1990
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Marginellidae
Prunum maoense (Maury 1917)
Nehm 2001 14 specimens
original and current combination Marginella maoensis
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Muricidae
Chicoreus (Chicoreus) cornurectus (Guppy 1876)
Vokes 1989
recombined as Chicoreus (Triplex) cornurectus
Gastropoda - Neritidae
Smaragdia viridis (Linnaeus 1758)
Costa et al. 2001 4 specimens
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
Laevicardium venustulum (Gabb 1873)
Vokes 1989
Trigoniocardia (Trigoniocardia) haitensis (Sowerby 1850)
Vokes 1989
Trachycardium (Mexicardia) dominicanum (Dall 1900)
Vokes 1989
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Argopecten eccentricus (Gabb 1873)
Waller 2011 83 specimens
Leptopecten thompsoni (Maury 1917)
Waller 2011 16 specimens
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Propeamussiidae
Cyclopecten guppyi (Dall 1898)
Waller 2011 1 specimen
see common names

Geography
Country:Dominican Republic
Coordinates: 19.6° North, 71.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:19.6° North, 70.1° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
Stage:Tortonian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Tortonian
Age range of interval:11.63000 - 7.24600 m.y. ago
Age estimate:7.8 Ma (age-depth)
Stratigraphy
Formation:Cercado
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From Cercado Formation, which unconformably overlies the Baitoa Formation, and is overlain by the Gurabo Formation. AGE: Late Miocene, based on Table 1 of Saunders et al. (1986); direct date from Cheetham et al. (1999). STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within section
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:shelly/skeletal siltstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: LITHIFICATION: Unknown. LITHOLOGY: Fossiliferous silts.
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some genera,some macrofossils
Collection methods:bulk,surface (in situ),field collection,survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:NMB
Collection method comments: COLLECTOR: Unknown. REPOSITORY: Naturhistorisches Museum Basel, Switzerland (NMB).
Taxonomic list comments:NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication, with species-resolution identifications, and modern nomenclature. COVERAGE: Limited to taxa described in text.
Metadata
Also known as:PJ# 1670
Database number:131517
Authorizer:A. Hendy Enterer:A. Hendy
Modifier:A. Hendy Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2012-07-26 04:25:30 Last modified:2013-11-25 13:37:23
Access level:authorizer only Released:2014-07-26 04:25:30
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
25313. 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]

Secondary references:

30037 A. G. Beu. 2010. Neogene Tonnoidean Gastropods of Tropical and South America; contributions to the Dominican Republic and Panama Paleontology Projects and Uplift of the Central American Isthmus. Bulletins of American Paleontology (377-378)1-550 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]
43588 A. H. Cheetham and J. B. C. Jackson. 1999. Neogene cheilostome Bryozoa of tropical America: Comparison and contrast between the Central American Isthmus (Panama, Costa Rica) and the north-central Caribbean (Dominican Republic). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History (357)159-192 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]
26933 F. H. A. Costa, R. H. Neim, and C. S. Hickman. 2001. Neogene paleontology in the Northern Dominican Republic. 22. The family Neritidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Bulletins of American Paleontology 359:47-71 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/P. Wagner]
43555 P. Jung and R. E. Petit. 1990. Neogene paleontology in the northern Dominican Republic, 10. The family Cancellariidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Bulletins of American Paleontology 98(334):87-144 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]
42446 R. H. Nehm. 2001. Neogene paleontology in the Northern Dominican Republic. 21. The genus Prunum (Gastropoda: Marginellidae). Bulletins of American Paleontology (359)1-46 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]
25312 E. H. Vokes. 1989. Neogene Paleontology in the Northern Dominican Republic 8. The Family Muricidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Bulletins of American Paleontology. Bulletins of American Paleontology 97(332):1-94 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]
24476 H. E. Vokes. 1989. Neogene Paleontology in the Northern Dominican Republic 9. The Family Cardiidae (Mollusca: Bivalvia). Bulletins of American Paleontology 97(332):95-161 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]
37262 T. R. Waller. 2011. Neogene Paleontology of the Northern Dominican Republic. 24. Propeamussidae and Pectinidae (Mollusca: Bivalvia: Pectinoidea) of the Cibao Valley. Bulletins of American Paleontology (381)1-198 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]