TU 1446 (Rio Yaque del Norte): Miocene, Dominican Republic

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Malacostraca - Decapoda
Decapoda indet. Latreille 1802
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Anomiidae
Anomia simplex d'Orbigny 1845
5 specimens
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Plicatulidae
Plicatula sp. Lamarck 1801
8 specimens
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
"Chlamys" sp. Röding 1798
2 specimens
Bivalvia - Arcida - Glycymerididae
Glycymeris jamaicensis Dall 1898
1 specimen
recombined as Glycymeris (Glycymeris) jamaicensis
Tucetona acuticostata (Sowerby 1849)
2 specimens
Bivalvia - Arcida - Arcidae
Anadara (Rasia) sp. (Gray 1857)
17 specimens
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Chamidae
Chama involuta Guppy 1873
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
Americardia guppyi (Thiele 1910)
32 specimens
Trachycardium (Dallocardia) tintinnabularum (Maury 1917)
Vokes 1989 1 specimen
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Semelidae
Semele claytoni Maury 1917
2 specimens
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Tellinidae
Tellinidae indet. Blainville 1814
2 specimens
Gastropoda
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795
3 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Conidae
Conus symmetricus Sowerby 1849
4 specimens
recombined as Purpuriconus symmetricus
Conus sp. Linnaeus 1758
8 specimens
Conus olssoni Maury 1917
1 specimen
recombined as Conus (Atlanticonus) olssoni
Conus planiliratus Sowerby 1850
3 specimens
recombined as Conasprelloides planiliratus
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Turridae
Turridae indet. Swainson 1840
5 specimens
Lepicythara sp. Olsson 1964
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Mitridae
Mitridae indet. Swainson 1831
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Muricidae
Chicoreus sp. Monfort 1810
1 specimen
Chicoreus (Chicoreus) cornurectus (Guppy 1876)
1 specimen
recombined as Chicoreus (Triplex) cornurectus
Chicoreus (Siratus) sp. (Jousseaume 1880)
9 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Marginellidae
Marginella sp. Lamarck 1799
9 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Columbellidae
Parametaria islahispaniolae (Maury 1917)
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Buccinidae
Solenosteira sp. Dall 1890
2 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Nassariidae
Nassarius sp. Duméril 1806
6 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Fasciolariidae
Fusinus sp. Rafinesque 1815
1 specimen
Latirus sp. Monfort 1810
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Costellariidae
Uromitra sp. Bellardi 1887
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Strombidae
Strombus sp. Linnaeus 1758
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Naticidae
Polinices sp. Monfort 1810
5 specimens
Natica (Natica) sp. Scopoli 1777
16 specimens
Gastropoda - Vermetidae
Petaloconchus sp. Lea 1843
5 specimens
Gastropoda - Cerithiidae
Rhinoclavis (Ochetoclava) plebeia
4 specimens
Gastropoda - Turritellidae
Turritella sp. Lamarck 1799
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Potamididae
Potamididae indet. (Adams and Adams 1854)
10 specimens
original and current combination Potamidinae
Gastropoda - Ampullinidae
Pachycrommium guppyi (Gabb 1873)
4 specimens
see common names

Geography
Country:Dominican Republic
Coordinates: 19.9° North, 71.7° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:19.8° North, 70.6° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 5-6
Key time interval:Miocene
Age range of interval:23.03000 - 5.33300 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: AGE: THICKNESS: STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: COMMENTS:
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: unlithified "siliciclastic"
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Unknown, presumably silcicilastic. LITHIFICATION: Unlithified based on observation of figures.
Environment:coastal indet.
Geology comments: ENVIRONMENT: Appearing to be shallow marine siliciclastic environment.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original aragonite,original calcite
Degree of concentration:concentrated
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:excellent
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:bulk,sieve,field collection
Minimum sieve size:4.000
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Museum repositories:PRI
Collection method comments: COLLECTOR: E. Vokes. REPOSITORY: PRI. FIDELITY: Moderate ecological fidelity.
Taxonomic list comments:TAXONOMY: Most taxa Identified by A. Hendy, with some earlier identifications by E. Vokes, P. Jung, H. Vokes, L. Anderson.
Metadata
Database number:74913
Authorizer:A. Hendy Enterer:A. Hendy
Modifier:A. Hendy Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2007-09-05 13:32:08 Last modified:2013-11-25 13:37:23
Access level:authorizer only Released:2008-09-05 13:32:08
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
19909. A. J. W. Hendy, D. P. Buick, K. V. Bulinski, C. A. Ferguson, and A. I. Miller. 2008. Unpublished census data from Atlantic coastal plain and circum-Caribbean Neogene assemblages and taxonomic opinions. [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]

Secondary references:

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]
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]