NMB Loc. 16853 - Rio Cana [Cercado Fm]: Messinian, Dominican Republic
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Poritidae
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Goniopora imperatoris
Vaughan 1919
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Foster 1986 | ||||||
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Porites baracoaensis
Vaughan 1919
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Foster 1986 | ||||||
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Porites waylandi
Foster 1986
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Foster 1986 | ||||||
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Porites portoricensis
(Vaughan 1919)
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Foster 1986 | ||||||
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Merulinidae
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Montastrea limbata
(Duncan 1863)
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Budd 1991 | ||||||
| recombined as Orbicella limbata | |||||||
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Faviidae
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Solenastrea hyades
(Dana 1846)
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Budd 1991 | ||||||
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Mussidae
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Manicina grandis
(Duncan 1864)
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Budd and Johnson 1999 | ||||||
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Gastropoda
- Neotaenioglossa
- Calyptraeidae
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Crepidula sp.
Lamarck 1799
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Jung 1989 | 1 specimen | |||||
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Gastropoda
- Naticidae
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Natica sp.
Scopoli 1777
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Jung 1989 | 1 specimen | |||||
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Stigmaulax sp.
Morch 1852
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Jung 1989 | 2 specimens | |||||
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Columbellidae
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Sincola (Sincola) nanniebellae
(Maury 1917)
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Jung 1989 | 9 specimens | |||||
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Gastropoda
- Cassidae
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Semicassis reclusa
(Guppy 1873)
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Beu 2010 | 2 specimens | |||||
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Gastropoda
- Triphoridae
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Triphoridae indet.
Gray 1847
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Jung 1989 | 9 specimens | |||||
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Gastropoda
- Cerithiidae
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Cerithiidae indet.
(Fleming 1822)
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Jung 1989 | 6 specimens | |||||
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Gastropoda
- Turritellidae
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Vermicularia woodringi
Olsson and Harbison 1953
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Jung 1989 | 3 specimens | |||||
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Bivalvia
- Lucinida
- Lucinidae
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Anodontia sp.
Link 1807
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Jung 1989 | 2 specimens | |||||
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Geography
| Country: | Dominican Republic |
| Coordinates: | 19.5° North, 71.3° West (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 19.5° North, 70.7° West |
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
| 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: | 7.24600 - 5.33300 m.y. ago | ||
| Age estimate: | 7.0 Ma (age-depth) |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Cercado | ||||
| Regional section: | Rio Cana | Regional bed: | 1 | ||
| Regional order: | bottom to top | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Cercado Formation, which unconformably overlies the Baitoa Formation, and is unconformably overlain by the Cercado Formation. AGE: Late Miocene, based on Table 1 of Saunders et al. (1986); late Miocene according to Jung (1994, p. 260); direct date extrapolated from Cheetham et al. (1999). STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: unit C1 (165-185 m), sample ca. 180 m. | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | lithified "limestone" |
| Secondary lithology: | lithified sandstone |
| Lithology description: corals in thickets or small bioherms | |
| Environment: | perireef or subreef |
| Geology comments: shallow water depth < 10 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: | 93731 | ||
| Authorizer: | W. Kiessling, A. Hendy | Enterer: | U. Merkel, A. Hendy |
| Modifier: | A. Hendy | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2010-02-01 01:20:18 | Last modified: | 2012-12-06 16:52:05 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2010-02-01 01:20:18 |
| 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] | |
| 31893 | A. F. Budd. 1991. Neogene paleontology in the northern Dominican Republic, 11. The family Faviidae (Anthozoa, Scleractinia), part 1. The genera Montastrea and Solenastrea. Bulletins of American Paleontology 101:5-83 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel] | |
| 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] | |
| 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] | |
| 42438 | P. Jung. 1989. Unpublished notes on Caribbean collection of the Naturhistorisches Museum Basel. [A. Hendy/A. Hendy] | |
| 26828 | P. Jung. 1989. Revision of the Strombina-group (Gastropoda; Columbellidae), fossil and living. Schweierische Paläontologische Abhandlungen 111:1-298 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/A. Hendy] |