NMB Loc. 15866 - Río Gurabo [Gurabo Fm]: Messinian, Dominican Republic

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Cerithiidae
Ochetoclava sp. Woodring 1928
Jung 1989 5 specimens
spelled with current rank as Rhinoclavis (Ochetoclava)
Gastropoda - Bursidae
Bursa grayana Dunker 1862
Beu 2010 1 specimen
Gastropoda - Cassidae
Cassis sulcifera Sowerby 1850
Beu 2010 1 specimen
Sconsia laevigata (Guppy 1850)
Beu 2010 3 specimens
Gastropoda - Personidae
Distorsio mcgintyi Emerson and Puffer 1953
Beu 2010 2 specimens
Gastropoda - Ranellidae
Cymatium praefemorale (Maury 1917)
Beu 2010 1 specimen
Gastropoda - Cypraeidae
Muracypraea henekeni (Sowerby 1850)
Jung 1989 3 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Fasciolariidae
Fusinus henekeni (Sowerby 1850)
Jung 1989 1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Buccinidae
Tritiaria (Antillophos) sp. (Woodring 1928)
Jung 1989 3 specimens
original and current combination Antillophos
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Columbellidae
Metulella venusta (Sowerby 1850)
Jung 1994 1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Volutidae
Lyria (Lyria) pulchella (Sowerby 1850)
Vokes 1998
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Marginellidae
Prunum coniforme (Sowerby 1850)
Nehm 2001 2 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Muricidae
Murex (Haustellum) messorius (Sowerby 1841)
Vokes 1989
recombined as Vokesimurex messorius
Murex (Haustellum) pennae (Maury 1934)
Vokes 1989
Chicoreus (Chicoreus) cornurectus (Guppy 1876)
Vokes 1989
recombined as Chicoreus (Triplex) cornurectus
Gastropoda - Strombidae
Strombus bifrons Sowerby 1850
Freiheit and Geary 2009
Lobatus haitensis (Sowerby 1850)
Freiheit and Geary 2009
Lobatus dominator (Pilsbry 1917)
Freiheit and Geary 2009
Gastropoda - Xenophoridae
Tugurium imperforatum
Jung 1989 1 specimen
synonym of Onustus
Xenophora delecta (Guppy 1876)
Jung 1989 1 specimen
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Argopecten inaequalis (Sowerby 1850)
Waller 2011 1 specimen
Argopecten thetidis (Sowerby 1850)
Waller 2011 7 specimens
Lindapecten paramuscosus Waller 2011
Waller 2011 1 specimen
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Spondylidae
Spondylus bostrychites Guppy 1867
Vokes and Vokes 1992
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Mussidae
Manicina jungi Budd and Johnson 1999
Budd and Johnson 1999
Manicina grandis (Duncan 1864)
Budd and Johnson 1999
see common names

Geography
Country:Dominican Republic
Coordinates: 19.5° North, 71.2° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:19.5° North, 70.6° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
Stage:Messinian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Messinian
Age range of interval:7.24600 - 5.33300 m.y. ago
Age estimate:6.9 Ma (age-depth)
Stratigraphy
Formation:Gurabo
Local section:Río Gurabo Local bed:227 m
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Gurabo Formation, which unconformably overlies the Cercado Formation, and is unconformably overlain by the Mao Formation. AGE: Late Miocene, based on Table 1 of Saunders et al. (1986); late Miocene according to Jung (1994, p. 260); direct date from Cheetham et al. (1999). STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: unit G5 (210-250 m), sample ca. 230 m above base.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "siliciclastic"
Secondary lithology: lithified "limestone"
Lithology description: corals in thickets or small bioherms in a siliciclastic-dominated environment
Environment:perireef or subreef
Geology comments: deeper (more than 10-20 m), more turbid reef habitats
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:peel or thin section,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:84952
Authorizer:W. Kiessling, A. Hendy Enterer:U. Merkel, A. Hendy
Modifier:A. Hendy Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2008-11-19 02:30:06 Last modified:2012-12-06 15:39:59
Access level:authorizer only Released:2010-11-19 02:30:06
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]
28516 A. F. Budd and K. G. Johnson. 1999. Neogene Paleontology in the northern Dominican Republic 19: The family Faviidae (Anthozoa, Scleractinia) part II: The genera Caulastraea, Favia, Diploria, Thysanus, Hadrophyllia, Manicina and Colpophyllia. Bulletins of American Paleontology 356:1-83 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]
29992 J. R. Freiheit and D. H. Geary. 2009. Neogene Paleontology of the Northern Dominican Republic. 23. Strombid Gastropods (Genera Strombus and Lobatus; Mollusca: Gastropoda: Strombidae) of the Cibao Valley. Bulletins of American Paleontology 376:1-54 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]
42438 P. Jung. 1989. Unpublished notes on Caribbean collection of the Naturhistorisches Museum Basel. [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]
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]
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]
18705 H. E. Vokes and E.H. Vokes. 1992. Neogene Paleontology in the northern Dominican Republic: The Genus Spondylus (Bivalvia: Spondylidae). Bulletins of American Paleontology 102(339):1-40 [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]