TU 1206, Santiago de los Caballeros [Gurabo Fm]: Messinian - Zanclean, Dominican Republic

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Scaphopoda - Dentaliida - Dentaliidae
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Arcida - Arcidae
82 specimens
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Dimyidae
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Euvola sp. (Dall 1898)
3 specimens
Euvola soror (Gabb 1873)
Waller 2011 15 specimens
Waller 2011 2 specimens
Argopecten thetidis (Sowerby 1850)
Waller 2011 6 specimens
Waller 2011 3 specimens
Amusium papyraceum (Gabb 1873)
Present as fragments, not count
Aequipecten sp. Fischer 1886
2 specimens
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Anomiidae
Anomia simplex d'Orbigny 1845
2 specimens
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Pinnidae
Atrina sp. Gray 1842
4 specimens
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Ostreidae
13 specimens
Bivalvia - Lucinida - Lucinidae
2 specimens
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
Antigona tarquina (Dall 1900)
1 specimen
Listed as "A. caesarina"
74 specimens
4 specimens
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Chamidae
Arcinella antiquata (Guppy 1866)
10 specimens
3 specimens
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Tellinidae
Eurytellina sp. Fischer 1887
3 specimens
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
7 specimens
2 specimens
[entered as Acrosterigma linguatugris]
Vokes 1989
3 specimens
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Corbulidae
Anderson 1996
Anderson 1996
Gastropoda - Opisthobranchiata - Bullidae
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Pseudomelaniidae
Carinodrillia elocata (Pilsbry and Johnson 1922)
2 specimens
Gastropoda - Turritellidae
Vermicularia spirata (Philippi 1836)
10 specimens
Gastropoda - Cerithiidae
Cerithium sp. Bruguière 1789
2 specimens
4 specimens
Gastropoda - Naticidae
6 specimens
Gastropoda - Tonnidae
Malea camura Guppy 1866
4 specimens
Gastropoda - Cassidae
Cassis sulcifera Sowerby 1850
1 specimen
Sconsia laevigata (Guppy 1850)
18 specimens
Gastropoda - Personidae
Distorsio simillima (Sowerby 1850)
3 specimens
Distorsio simillima (Sowerby 1850)
Beu 2010 7 specimens
Gastropoda - Cypraeidae
2 specimens
Gastropoda - Xenophoridae
Xenophora delecta (Guppy 1876)
5 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Fasciolariidae
1 specimen
Fusinus henekeni (Sowerby 1850)
4 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Nassariidae
Calophos sp. Woodring 1964
2 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Buccinidae
Buccinidae indet. Rafinesque 1815
1 specimen
52 specimens
26 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Conidae
78 specimens
Conus consobrinus Sowerby 1850
6 specimens
Conus multiliratus (Olsson 1922)
2 specimens
Conus symmetricus Sowerby 1849
4 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Mangeliidae
"Cythara" polygona (Gabb 1873)
3 specimens
2 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Turridae
Turridae indet. Swainson 1840
17 specimens
Polystira haitensis (Sowerby 1850)
45 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Muricidae
Vokes 1989 2 specimens
Vokes 1989
Vokes 1989 137 specimens
Vokes 1989
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Volutidae
Lyria (Lyria) pulchella (Sowerby 1850)
2 specimens
Gastropoda - Strombidae
Lobatus haitensis (Sowerby 1850)
Freiheit and Geary 2009
Strombus bifrons Sowerby 1850
Freiheit and Geary 2009
Strombus proximus Sowerby 1850
Freiheit and Geary 2009
Gastropoda - Vermetidae
3 specimens
37 specimens
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Architectonicidae
6 specimens
see common names

Geography
Country:Dominican Republic
Coordinates: 19.5° North, 70.7° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:19.9° North, 69.5° West (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Neogene Epoch: Miocene - Pliocene
Stage: Messinian - Zanclean 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 6
Key time interval: Messinian - Zanclean
Age range of interval: 7.246 - 3.6 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Gurabo
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From Gurabo Fm, which overlies the Cercado Fm, and is overlain by the Mao Fm (Pliocene). AGE: Late Miocene-Early Pliocene, based on Table 1 of Saunders et al. (1986); assigned to Messinian-Zanclean at present. THICKNESS: Unknown. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Unknown position within section.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: poorly lithified "siliciclastic"
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Unknown, presumably silcicilastic. LITHIFICATION: Poorly lithified based on observation of figures.
Environment:shallow subtidal indet.
Geology comments: ENVIRONMENT: Appearing to be shallow marine firmground environment.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original aragonite,original calcite
Degree of concentration:concentrated
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:bulk,sieve,field collection
Minimum sieve size:4.000
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Museum repositories:PRI
Collection method comments: COLLECTOR: E. Vokes. REPOSITORY: PRI. FIDELITY: Moderate ecological fidelity.
Taxonomic list comments:TAXONOMY: Most taxa Identified by A. Hendy, with some earlier identifications by E. Vokes, P. Jung, H. Vokes, L. Anderson.
Metadata
Database number:74966
Authorizer:A. Hendy Enterer:A. Hendy
Modifier:A. Hendy Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2007-09-09 15:23:49 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:authorizer only Released:2009-09-09 15:23:49
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
19909. A. J. W. Hendy, D. P. Buick, K. V. Bulinski, C. A. Ferguson, and A. I. Miller. 2008. Unpublished census data from Atlantic coastal plain and circum-Caribbean Neogene assemblages and taxonomic opinions. [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]

Secondary references:

24475 L. C. Anderson. 1996. Neogene Paleontology in the Northern Dominican Republic 16. The Family Corbulidae (Mollusca: Bivalvia). Bulletins of American Paleontology 110(351):5-34 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
37262 T. R. Waller. 2011. Neogene Paleontology of the Northern Dominican Republic. 24. Propeamussidae and Pectinidae (Mollusca: Bivalvia: Pectinoidea) of the Cibao Valley. Bulletins of American Paleontology (381)1-198 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]