USGS 8663 Arroyo Las Lavas: Middle Miocene, Dominican Republic

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Montastraeidae
Orbicella cavernosa (Linne 1767)
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Astrocoeniidae
Madracis decactis (Lyman 1859)
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Pocilloporidae
Stylophora sp. Schweigger 1819
Stylophora minor Duncan 1863
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Caryophylliidae
Placocyathus sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Mussidae
Mussa sp. Oken 1815
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Meandrinidae
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Merulinidae
Antillia sp. Duncan 1863
Vaughan and Hoffmeister 1925
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Agariciidae
Agaricia sp. Lamarck 1801
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Siderastreidae
Siderastrea siderea (Ellis and Solander 1786)
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Poritidae
Porites sp. Link 1807
Porites aff. furcata Lamarck 1816
Bivalvia - Arcida - Arcidae
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Spondylidae
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostrea folium Linnaeus 1758
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Chamidae
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Corbulidae
Gastropoda - Turritellidae
Gastropoda - Cerithiidae
Conocerithium sp. Sacco 1895
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Muricidae
Coralliophila sp. Adams and Adams 1853
Gastropoda - Strombidae
Strombus sp. Linnaeus 1758
see common names

Geography
Country:Dominican Republic
Coordinates: 19.5° North, 70.8° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:20.7° North, 67.5° West (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Neogene Epoch: Miocene
10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 5
Key time interval: Middle Miocene
Age range of interval: 15.98 - 11.63 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Mao Adentro
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "limestone"
Secondary lithology: marl
Environment:perireef or subreef
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:124722
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2012-02-22 23:02:41 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:authorizer only Released:2013-02-22 23:02:41
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
25443. T. W. Vaughan, W. Cooke, D. D. Condit, C. P. Ross, W. P. Woodring and F. C. Calkins. 1921. A geological reconnaissance of the Dominican Republic. Geological Survey of the Dominican Republic Memoir 1:1-268 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/U. Merkel]

Secondary references:

40360 T. W. Vaughan and J. E. Hoffmeister. 1925. New species of fossil corals from the Dominican Republic. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 67(8):315-326 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]