Santiago de los Caballeros: Miocene, Dominican Republic

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Caryophylliidae
Asterosmilia profunda (Duncan 1864)
see common names

Geography
Country:Dominican Republic
Coordinates: 19.5° North, 70.7° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:20.6° North, 67.3° West (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period: Neogene Epoch: Miocene
10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 5-6
Key time interval: Miocene
Age range of interval: 23.04 - 5.333 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:"Nivaje Shale"
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: "Nivaje Shale" of Heneken
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:93657
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2010-01-27 05:39:56 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2010-01-27 05:39:56
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
31716. S. D. Cairns and J. W. Wells. 1987. Neogene paleontology in the northern Dominican Republic, 5. The suborders Caryophylliina and Dendrophylliina (Anthozoa, Scleractinia). Bulletins of American Paleontology 93(328):23-43 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]