NMB Loc. 15993 - Rio Gurabo [Gurabo Fm]: Zanclean, Dominican Republic

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Opisthobranchiata - Cavoliniidae
Clio pyramidata Linnaeus 1767
1 specimen
see common names

Geography
Country:Dominican Republic
Coordinates: 19.6° North, 71.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:20.0° North, 70.0° 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 Zone:  Globorotalia margaritae
Age range of interval: 5.333 - 3.6 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Gurabo
Local section:Rio Gurabo Local bed:NA
Regional order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Early Pliocene
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "siliciclastic"
Lithology description: slump deposits
Environment:offshore
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:181407
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:M. Krause
Modifier:M. Krause Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2016-09-12 08:50:56 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:authorizer only Released:2017-03-12 08:50:56
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:

58961. A. W. Janssen. 1999. Neogene Paleontology in the Northern Dominican Republic 20. Holoplanktonic Mollusks (Gastropoda: Heteropoda and Thecosomata). Bulletins of American Paleontology (358)1-40 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]