NMB Loc. 17278 - La Barranca [Cercado Fm]: Messinian, Dominican Republic
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Gastropoda
- Neritidae
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Neritina figulopicta
(Maury 1917)
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Costa et al. 2001 | 1 specimen | |||||
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Gastropoda
- Tonnidae
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Malea camura
Guppy 1866
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Beu 2010 | 1 specimen | |||||
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Muricidae
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Chicoreus (Phyllonotus) pomatus
Vokes 1989
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Vokes 1989 | ||||||
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Turbinellidae
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Vasum haitense
(Sowerby 1850)
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Vokes 1998 | ||||||
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Gastropoda
- Strombidae
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Strombus proximus
Sowerby 1850
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Freiheit and Geary 2009 | ||||||
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Cardiidae
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Americardia guppyi
(Thiele 1910)
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Vokes 1989 | ||||||
| see common names | |||||||
Geography
| Country: | Dominican Republic |
| Coordinates: | 19.4° North, 70.7° West (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 19.4° North, 70.1° West |
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark |
| 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: | 7.246 - 5.333 m.y. ago | ||
| Age estimate: | 5.6 Ma (age-depth) |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Cercado | ||||
| 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 from Cheetham et al. (1999). STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within section. | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | shelly/skeletal siltstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: LITHIFICATION: Not stated in text. LITHOLOGY: Silts, fossiliferous. | |
| 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),field collection,survey of museum collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| 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: | 131478 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Hendy | Enterer: | A. Hendy |
| Modifier: | A. Hendy | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2012-07-25 14:18:23 | Last modified: | 2013-11-25 13:37:23 |
| Access level: | authorizer only | Released: | 2014-07-25 14:18:23 |
| 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] | |
| 43588 | A. H. Cheetham and J. B. C. Jackson. 1999. Neogene cheilostome Bryozoa of tropical America: Comparison and contrast between the Central American Isthmus (Panama, Costa Rica) and the north-central Caribbean (Dominican Republic). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History (357)159-192 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy] | |
| 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] | |
| 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] | |
| 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] |