JK08-42, Rio Gurabo [Gurabo Fm]: Zanclean, Dominican Republic
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Caryophylliidae
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Geography
| Country: | Dominican Republic |
| Coordinates: | 19.5° North, 71.2° West (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 19.9° North, 70.2° West (Wright 2013) |
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Pliocene |
| Stage: | Zanclean | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
| Key time interval: | Zanclean | ||
| Age range of interval: | 5.333 - 3.6 m.y. ago | ||
| Age estimate: | 5.00 to 4.90 Ma (unknown) |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Gurabo |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | lithified "limestone" |
| Secondary lithology: | lithified "siliciclastic" |
| Environment: | perireef or subreef |
| Geology comments: deeper (more than 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: | 175589 | ||
| Authorizer: | W. Kiessling | Enterer: | M. Krause |
| Modifier: | M. Krause | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2015-12-17 06:15:36 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | authorizer only | Released: | 2016-03-17 06:15:36 |
| 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] |