Evans - S4, Cercado Fm: Messinian, Dominican Republic
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Montastraeidae
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Geography
| Country: | Dominican Republic |
| Coordinates: | 18.9° North, 71.6° West (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 19.5° North, 70.1° West (Wright 2013) |
| 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: | 6.25 to 6.10 Ma (unknown) |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Gurabo |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | "reef rocks" |
| Environment: | shallow subtidal indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | some genera,some macrofossils |
| Collection methods: | bulk,surface (in situ),field collection,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:COVERAGE: Limited to taxa described in taxonomic monograph. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication, with modern nomenclature, and species-resolution identification. | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 175588 | ||
| Authorizer: | W. Kiessling | Enterer: | M. Krause |
| Modifier: | M. Krause | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2015-12-17 06:05:08 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | authorizer only | Released: | 2016-03-17 06:05:08 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 57439. | J. S. Klaus, S. T. Murray, P. K. Swart and D. F. McNeill. 2013. Resource partitioning and paleoecology of Neogene free-living corals as determined from skeletal stable isotope composition. Buletin of marine science 84(4):937-954 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause] |