TU 1363 - Rio Yaque del Norte [Baitoa Fm]: Langhian, Dominican Republic

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Arcida - Noetiidae
Noetia (Noetia) sp. Gray 1857
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Arcida - Arcidae
Anadara (Diluvarca) cf. microtera
30 specimens
Anadara (Rasia) sp. (Gray 1857)
12 specimens
Arca (Arca) sp. Linnaeus 1758
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Euvola soror (Gabb 1873)
Waller 2011 3 specimens
Bivalvia - Lucinida - Lucinidae
Anodontia (Pegophysema) sp. (Stewart 1930)
2 specimens
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Mactridae
"Spisula" sp. Gray 1837
3 specimens
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
Chione sp. von Mühlfield 1811
9 specimens
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Semelidae
Semele claytoni Maury 1917
2 specimens
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Psammobiidae
Sanguinolaria smithwoodwardi
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
Trigoniocardia (Trigoniocardia) aminensis (Dall 1900)
20 specimens
Trachycardium (Dallocardia) tintinnabularum (Maury 1917)
Vokes 1989 1 specimen
Trachycardium (Dallocardia) dominicense (Gabb 1873)
Vokes 1989 2 specimens
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Corbulidae
Varicorbula sanctidominici (Maury 1925)
Anderson 1996
Bothrocorbula viminea (Guppy 1866)
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Turbinidae
Turbo (Taeniaturbo) dominicensis (Gabb 1873)
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Solariellidae
Solariella altiuscula Guppy 1896
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Pseudomelaniidae
Carinodrillia sp. (Dall 1919)
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Potamididae
Potamididae indet. (Adams and Adams 1854)
5 specimens
Gastropoda - Cerithiidae
Rhinoclavis (Ochetoclava) plebeia
35 specimens
Gastropoda - Turritellidae
Turritellidae indet. Lovén 1847
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neotaenioglossa - Calyptraeidae
Crucibulum (Crucibulum) sp. Schumacher 1817
2 specimens
Gastropoda - Ampullinidae
Pachycrommium guppyi (Gabb 1873)
8 specimens
Gastropoda - Vermetidae
Petaloconchus sp. Lea 1843
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Strombidae
Strombus sp. Linnaeus 1758
5 specimens
Gastropoda - Cypraeidae
Erosaria spurca (Linnaeus 1758)
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Turbinellidae
Vasum (Vasum) haitense (Sowerby 1850)
1 specimen
Turbinella validus (Sowerby 1850)
Vokes 1998
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Costellariidae
Uromitra sp. Bellardi 1887
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Cancellariidae
Cancellariidae indet. Gray 1853
3 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Melongenidae
Melongena consors (Sowerby 1850)
4 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Nassariidae
Nassarius (Nassarius) sp. Duméril 1806
57 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Buccinidae
Antillophos (Antillophos) elegans (Guppy 1866)
49 specimens
Antillophos (Antillophos) sp. Woodring 1928
1 specimen
Antillophos (Antillophos) pitti
5 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Columbellidae
Columbellidae indet. Swainson 1840
1 specimen
Parametaria lopezana Jung 1994
2 specimens
Includes 1 specimen from #19070
Parametaria (Dominitaria) lopezana Jung 1994
Jung 1994 1 specimen
Conella perplexabilis (Maury 1917)
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Terebridae
Terebra (Panaterebra) sp. Olsson 1967
1 specimen
Strioterebrum sp. Sacco 1891
3 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Conidae
Conus sp. Linnaeus 1758
8 specimens
Conus stenostoma Sowerby 1850
10 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Turridae
Lepicythara lopezana
1 specimen
Polystira haitensis (Sowerby 1850)
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Muricidae
Murex (Haustellum) messorius (Sowerby 1841)
6 specimens
Chicoreus (Chicoreus) cornurectus (Guppy 1876)
Vokes 1989 1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Volutidae
Lyria (Lyria) gabbi Vokes 1998
2 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Harpidae
Morum (Oniscidia) chipolanum Dall 1925
Vokes 1998 1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Marginellidae
Prunum latissinum
Nehm 2001 10 specimens
Prunum aminum (Dall 1896)
Nehm 2001 2 specimens
Gastropoda - Cassidae
Semicassis reclusa (Guppy 1873)
Beu 2010 1 specimen
Gastropoda - Ranellidae
Turritriton domingensis (Gabb 1873)
Beu 2010 1 specimen
Monoplex longispira Beu 2010
Beu 2010 1 specimen
Gastropoda - Naticidae
Polinices sp. Monfort 1810
7 specimens
Stigmaulax vererugosum (Cossmann 1924)
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Rissoidae
Crepitacella cepula (Guppy 1866)
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Opisthobranchia - Haminoeidae
Atys (Aliculastrum) sp. (Pilsbry 1896)
2 specimens
see common names

Geography
Country:Dominican Republic
Coordinates: 19.3° North, 70.8° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:19.2° North, 69.7° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Neogene Epoch: Miocene
Stage: Langhian 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 5
Key time interval: Langhian
Age range of interval: 15.98 - 13.82 m.y. ago
Age estimate: 15.7 Ma (age-depth)
Stratigraphy
Formation:Baitoa
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From Baitoa Fm, which unconformably underlies the Cercardo, and overlies unconformably the Tabera Fm. AGE: Early Miocene, based on Table 1 of Saunders et al. (1986); direct date extrapolated from Cheetham et al. (1999). THICKNESS: Unknown. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Unknown position within section.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: poorly lithified "siliciclastic"
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Unknown, presumably silcicilastic. LITHIFICATION: Poorly lithified 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:good
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:74959
Authorizer:A. Hendy Enterer:A. Hendy
Modifier:A. Hendy Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2007-09-08 11:22:34 Last modified:2013-11-25 13:37:23
Access level:authorizer only Released:2009-09-08 11:22:34
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:

24475 L. C. Anderson. 1996. Neogene Paleontology in the Northern Dominican Republic 16. The Family Corbulidae (Mollusca: Bivalvia). Bulletins of American Paleontology 110(351):5-34 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]
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]
19070 P. Jung. 1994. Neogene Paleontology in the Northern Dominican Republic 15. The Genera Columbella, Eurypyrene, Parametaria, Conella, Nitidella, and Metulella (Gastropoda: Columbellidae). Bulletins of American Paleontology 106(344):1-45 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]
26932 R. H. Nehm. 2001. Neogene paleontology in the northern Dominican Republic. Part 21. The Genus Prunum (Gastropoda: Marginellidae). Bulletins of American Paleontology (359)1-46 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]
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]
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]
18707 E. H. Vokes. 1998. Neogene Paleontology in the Northern Dominican Republic 18. The Superfamily Volutacea (in part) (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Bulletins of American Paleontology 113(354):1-54 [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]