NMB Loc. 16204 - Río Gurabo [Cercado Fm]: Tortonian, Dominican Republic
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Bivalvia
- Lucinida
- Lucinidae
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Lucinidae indet.
Fleming 1828
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Jung 1989 | 18 specimens | |||||
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Gastropoda
- Neritidae
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Neritina figulopicta
(Maury 1917)
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Costa et al. 2001 | 11 specimens | |||||
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Gastropoda
- Cerithiidae
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Cerithiidae indet.
(Fleming 1822)
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Jung 1989 | 2 specimens | |||||
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Cerithium sp.
Bruguière 1789
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Jung 1989 | 2 specimens | |||||
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Melongenidae
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Melongena sp.
Schumacher 1817
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Jung 1989 | 3 specimens | |||||
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Geography
| Country: | Dominican Republic |
| Coordinates: | 19.3° North, 71.7° West (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 19.3° North, 70.8° 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: | 8.0 Ma (age-depth) |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Cercado | ||||
| Local section: | Río Gurabo | Local bed: | 56 m | ||
| Local order: | bottom to top | ||||
| 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 extrapolated from Cheethan et al. (1999). STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From 56 m above base of section | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: LITHIFICATION: Unknown. LITHOLOGY: Not stated in text. | |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | some genera,some macrofossils |
| Collection methods: | surface (in situ),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
| Database number: | 131463 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Hendy | Enterer: | A. Hendy |
| Modifier: | A. Hendy | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2012-07-25 12:13:43 | Last modified: | 2013-11-25 13:37:23 |
| Access level: | authorizer only | Released: | 2014-07-25 12:13:43 |
| 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:
| 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] | |
| 42438 | P. Jung. 1989. Unpublished notes on Caribbean collection of the Naturhistorisches Museum Basel. [A. Hendy/A. Hendy] |