USGS 8522, Cercado de Mao: Messinian, Dominican Republic
collected by T.W. Vaughan, C.W. Cooke 1919
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Malacostraca
- Decapoda
- Portunidae
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Portunus oblongus n. sp.
Rathbun 1920
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Geography
| Country: | Dominican Republic |
| Coordinates: | 19.5° North, 71.1° West (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 19.5° North, 70.5° West |
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark |
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
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 |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Cercado | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Originally assigned to the lower Miocene, but strontium isotope dating indicates a Messinian age (Ortega-Ariza et al. 2015). | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | ||
| Museum repositories: | USNM | ||
| Collectors: | T.W. Vaughan, C.W. Cooke | Collection dates: | 1919 |
Metadata
| Database number: | 134951 | ||
| Authorizer: | C. Schweitzer | Enterer: | S. Yost |
| Modifier: | M. Clapham | Research group: | decapod,marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2012-10-19 07:39:50 | Last modified: | 2022-07-23 10:50:00 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2012-10-19 07:39:50 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 43423. | decapod,fossil record | M. J. Rathbun. 1920. Additions to West Indian Tertiary decapod crustaceans. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 58:381-384 [C. Schweitzer/S. Yost/M. Clapham] |