NMB Loc. 16836 - Río Cano [Gurabo Fm]: Messinian, Dominican Republic

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Faviidae
Thysanus navicula (Duncan 1864)
Budd and Johnson 1999
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Poritidae
Foster 1986
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Euvola soror (Gabb 1873)
Waller 2011 1 specimen
Lindapecten plurinominis (Pilsbry and Johnson 1917)
Waller 2011 1 specimen
Waller 2011 7 specimens
Bivalvia - Lucinida - Lucinidae
Lucinidae indet. Fleming 1828
Jung 1989 17 specimens
Gastropoda - Neritidae
Smaragdia viridis (Linnaeus 1758)
Costa et al. 2001 8 specimens
Gastropoda - Opisthobranchiata - Cavoliniidae
Diacria trispinosa (de Blainville 1821)
Janssen 1999 1 specimen
Gastropoda - Juliidae
Julia sp. Gould 1862
Jung 1989 3 specimens
Gastropoda - Cerithiidae
Cerithium sp. Bruguière 1789
Jung 1989 81 specimens
Jung 1989 3 specimens
Gastropoda - Naticidae
Tectonatica sp. Sacco 1890
Jung 1989 5 specimens
Natica sp. Scopoli 1777
Jung 1989 1 specimen
Stigmaulax sp. Morch 1852
Jung 1989 1 specimen
Gastropoda - Personidae
Distorsio simillima (Sowerby 1850)
Beu 2010 1 specimen
Gastropoda - Cypraeidae
Jung 1989 1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Buccinidae
Cantharus sp. Röding 1798
Jung 1989 4 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Columbellidae
Jung 1994 3 specimens
Jung 1994 7 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Terebridae
Terebridae indet. Mörch 1852
Jung 1989 4 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Muricidae
Vokes 1989
Vokes 1989
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Marginellidae
Nehm 2001 6 specimens
Gastropoda - Hipponicidae
Hipponix sp. (Defrance 1819)
Jung 1989 21 specimens
Gastropoda - Triphoridae
Jung 1989 26 specimens
Gastropoda - Vermetidae
Jung 1989 38 specimens
Jung 1989 25 specimens
Petaloconchus floridanus Olsson and Harbison 1953
Jung 1989 6 specimens
Jung 1989 12 specimens
Gastropoda - Ampullinidae
Jung 1989 14 specimens
see common names

Geography
Country:Dominican Republic
Coordinates: 19.5° North, 71.3° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:20.1° North, 69.8° 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: 6.4 Ma (age-depth)
Stratigraphy
Formation:Gurabo
Local section:Río Cano Local bed:240 m
Local order:bottom to top
Regional section:Río Cano Regional bed:3
Regional order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: AGE: direct date from Cheetham et al. (1999). STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: unit C3 (225-280 m), sample ca. 240 m above base; late Miocene according to Jung (1994, p. 259).
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified sandstone
Secondary lithology: lithified "limestone"
Lithology description: soft bottom communities of reef-associated grass flats
Environment:coastal indet.
Geology comments: moderate to deep water depth 10-30 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:84984
Authorizer:W. Kiessling, A. Hendy Enterer:U. Merkel, A. Hendy, M. Krause
Modifier:A. Hendy Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2008-11-19 05:20:40 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:authorizer only Released:2010-11-19 05:20:40
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
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]

Secondary references:

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]
28516 A. F. Budd and K. G. Johnson. 1999. Neogene Paleontology in the northern Dominican Republic 19: The family Faviidae (Anthozoa, Scleractinia) part II: The genera Caulastraea, Favia, Diploria, Thysanus, Hadrophyllia, Manicina and Colpophyllia. Bulletins of American Paleontology 356:1-83 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]
43588 A. H. Cheetham and J. B. C. Jackson. 1999. Neogene cheilostome Bryozoa of tropical America: Comparison and contrast between the Central American Isthmus (Panama, Costa Rica) and the north-central Caribbean (Dominican Republic). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History (357)159-192 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]
26933 F. H. A. Costa, R. H. Neim, and C. S. Hickman. 2001. Neogene paleontology in the Northern Dominican Republic. 22. The family Neritidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Bulletins of American Paleontology 359:47-71 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/P. Wagner]
31838 A. B. Foster. 1986. Neogene paleontology in the northern Dominican Republic, 3. The family Poritidae (Anthozoa, Scleractinia). Bulletins of American Paleontology 90:47-123 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]
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]
42438 P. Jung. 1989. Unpublished notes on Caribbean collection of the Naturhistorisches Museum Basel. [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]
19070 P. Jung. 1994. Neogene Paleontology in the Northern Dominican Republic 15. The Genera Columbella, Eurypyrene, Parametaria, Conella, Nitidella, and Metulella (Gastropoda: Columbellidae). Bulletins of American Paleontology 106(344):1-45 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]
26932 R. H. Nehm. 2001. Neogene paleontology in the northern Dominican Republic. Part 21. The Genus Prunum (Gastropoda: Marginellidae). Bulletins of American Paleontology (359)1-46 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]
42446 R. H. Nehm. 2001. Neogene paleontology in the Northern Dominican Republic. 21. The genus Prunum (Gastropoda: Marginellidae). Bulletins of American Paleontology (359)1-46 [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]
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]