USGS 8609 (C-86) Rio Via: Late Miocene - Early Pliocene, Dominican Republic

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Astrocoeniidae
Madracis decactis (Lyman 1859)
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Pocilloporidae
? Pocillopora sp. Lamarck 1816
Stylophora sp. Schweigger 1819
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Mussidae
Leptomussa sp. d'Archiardi 1867
? Leptomussa sp. d'Archiardi 1867
Manicina aff. gyrosa (Ellis and Solander 1786)
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Meandrinidae
Eusmilia sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Merulinidae
Antillia sp. Duncan 1863
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Faviidae
Solenastrea aff. bournoni Milne-Edwards and Haime 1849
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Agariciidae
Agaricia sp. Lamarck 1801
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Poritidae
Porites sp. Link 1807
Goniopora sp. Blainville 1830
see common names

Geography
Country:Dominican Republic
Coordinates: 18.5° North, 70.7° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:19.2° North, 68.8° West (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Neogene Epoch: Miocene - Pliocene
10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 6
Key time interval: Late Miocene - Early Pliocene
Age range of interval: 11.63 - 3.6 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Yaque
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "limestone"
Environment:shallow subtidal indet.
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:124780
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Modifier:U. Merkel Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2012-02-23 21:09:10 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:authorizer only Released:2013-02-23 21:09:10
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]