NMB Loc. 16827 - Rio Cana [Gurabo Fm]: Messinian, Dominican Republic
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Faviidae
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Hadrophyllia saundersi
Budd and Johnson 1999
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Budd and Johnson 1999 | ||||||
Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Mussidae
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Manicina puntagordensis
Weisbord 1968
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Budd and Johnson 1999 | ||||||
Manicina grandis
(Duncan 1864)
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Budd and Johnson 1999 | ||||||
Manicina geisteri
Budd and Johnson 1999
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Budd and Johnson 1999 | ||||||
Bivalvia
- Carditida
- Crassatellidae
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Crassatellidae indet.
FĂ©russac 1822
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Jung 1989 | 2 specimens | |||||
Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Muricidae
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Murex (Haustellum) messorius
(Sowerby 1841)
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Vokes 1989 | ||||||
recombined as Vokesimurex messorius | |||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | Dominican Republic |
Coordinates: | 19.5° North, 71.3° West (view map) |
Paleocoordinates: | 19.5° North, 70.7° 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: | 5.7 Ma (age-depth) |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | lithified sandstone |
Secondary lithology: | lithified "limestone" |
Lithology description: soft bottom communities of reef-associated grass flats | |
Environment: | coastal indet. |
Geology comments: moderate to deep water depth 10-30 m |
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: | 84990 | ||
Authorizer: | W. Kiessling, A. Hendy | Enterer: | U. Merkel, A. Hendy |
Modifier: | A. Hendy | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
Created: | 2008-11-19 06:58:54 | Last modified: | 2012-12-07 09:25:28 |
Access level: | authorizer only | Released: | 2010-11-19 06:58:54 |
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:
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] | |
42438 | P. Jung. 1989. Unpublished notes on Caribbean collection of the Naturhistorisches Museum Basel. [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] |