NMB Loc. 17268 - La Barranca [Gurabo Fm]: Zanclean, Dominican Republic

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Mussidae
Manicina jungi Budd and Johnson 1999
Budd and Johnson 1999
Gastropoda - Strombidae
Strombus bifrons Sowerby 1850
Freiheit and Geary 2009
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Marginellidae
Prunum coniforme (Sowerby 1850)
Nehm 2001 1 specimen
Gastropoda - Cassidae
Sconsia laevigata (Guppy 1850)
Beu 2010 5 specimens
Gastropoda - Personidae
Distorsio mcgintyo
Beu 2010 1 specimen
Distorsio simillima (Sowerby 1850)
Beu 2010 1 specimen
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Amusium papyraceum (Gabb 1873)
Waller 2011 3 specimens
Argopecten parathetidis Waller 2011
Waller 2011 2 specimens
Argopecten eccentricus (Gabb 1873)
Waller 2011 2 specimens
see common names

Geography
Country:Dominican Republic
Coordinates: 19.4° North, 70.7° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:19.4° North, 70.3° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
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:5.33300 - 3.60000 m.y. ago
Age estimate:4.6 Ma (age-depth)
Stratigraphy
Formation:Gurabo
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: Gurabo Formation?. AGE: direct date from Cheetham et al. (1999).
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "siliciclastic"
Environment:coastal indet.
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:84998
Authorizer:W. Kiessling, A. Hendy Enterer:U. Merkel, A. Hendy
Modifier:A. Hendy Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2008-11-20 00:35:58 Last modified:2012-11-23 13:49:37
Access level:authorizer only Released:2010-11-20 00:35:58
Creative Commons license:CC BY
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]