PBDB Collection

NMB Loc. 16835 - Río Cano [Cercado Fm]: Messinian, Dominican Republic

List of taxa

Where & when

Geology

Taphonomy & methods

Metadata & references

Taxonomic list

unclassified

	Tectonactica sp.	Jung 1989	3 specimens
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Mussidae

	Manicina grandis (Duncan 1864)	Budd and Johnson 1999

	Manicina geisteri Budd and Johnson 1999	Budd and Johnson 1999
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae

	Amusium papyraceum (Gabb 1873)	Waller 2011	1 specimen

	Antillipecten quemadosensis n. sp. Waller 2011	Waller 2011	1 specimen

	Lindapecten plurinominis (Pilsbry and Johnson 1917)	Waller 2011	23 specimens

	Argopecten eccentricus (Gabb 1873)	Waller 2011	111 specimens

	Euvola soror (Gabb 1873)	Waller 2011	14 specimens
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Limidae

	Limidae indet. Rafinesque 1815	Jung 1989	1 specimen
Bivalvia - Carditida - Crassatellidae

	Crassatellidae indet. Férussac 1822	Jung 1989	6 specimens
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae

	Trigoniocardia (Trigoniocardia) haitensis (Sowerby 1850)	Vokes 1989

	Laevicardium laevigatum (Linnaeus 1758)	Vokes 1989
	replaced by Laevicardium serratum

	Laevicardium venustulum (Gabb 1873)	Vokes 1989

	Trachycardium (Phlogocardium) lingualeonis (Guppy 1866)	Vokes 1989
Bivalvia - Lucinida - Lucinidae

	Lucinidae indet. Fleming 1828	Jung 1989	25 specimens
Gastropoda - Ampullinidae

	Pachycrommium sp. Woodring 1928	Jung 1989	40 specimens
Gastropoda - Cerithiidae

	Cerithiidae indet. (Fleming 1822)	Jung 1989	36 specimens

	Ochetoclava terpna	Jung 1989	12 specimens
	spelled with current rank as Rhinoclavis (Ochetoclava)
Gastropoda - Strombidae

	Strombus proximus Sowerby 1850	Freiheit and Geary 2009

	Lobatus haitensis (Sowerby 1850)	Freiheit and Geary 2009
Gastropoda - Cypraeidae

	Cypraeidae indet. Rafinesque 1815	Jung 1989	1 specimen

	Erosaria spurca (Linnaeus 1758)	Jung 1989	15 specimens

	Bistolida sp. (Cossmann 1920)	Jung 1989	1 specimen

	Muracypraea henekeni (Sowerby 1850)	Jung 1989	1 specimen
Gastropoda - Cassidae

	Cassis sulcifera Sowerby 1850	Beu 2010	6 specimens

	Semicassis reclusa (Guppy 1873)	Beu 2010	2 specimens
Gastropoda - Tonnidae

	Malea elliptica Pilsbry and Johnston 1917	Beu 2010	2 specimens
Gastropoda - Ranellidae

	Cymatium praefemorale (Maury 1917)	Beu 2010	1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Cancellariidae

	Cancellaria (Cancellaria) harrisi (Maury 1917)	Jung and Petit 1990

	Aphera islacolonis (Maury 1917)	Jung and Petit 1990
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Terebridae

	Terebridae indet. Mörch 1852	Jung 1989	7 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Melongenidae

	Melongena sp. Schumacher 1817	Jung 1989	4 specimens

	Pugilina sp. Schumacher 1817	Jung 1989	2 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Buccinidae

	Cantharus sp. Röding 1798	Jung 1989	2 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Columbellidae

	Parametaria (Dominitaria) islahispaniolae (Maury 1917)	Jung 1994	6 specimens

	Bifurcium canae	Jung 1994	6 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Muricidae

	Murex (Haustellum) adelosus Vokes 1989	Vokes 1989
	recombined as Siratus adelosus

	Chicoreus (Chicoreus) cornurectus (Guppy 1876)	Vokes 1989
	recombined as Chicoreus (Triplex) cornurectus
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Marginellidae

	Prunum maoense (Maury 1917)	Nehm 2001	25 specimens
	original and current combination Marginella maoensis
Gastropoda - Vermetidae

	Serpulorbis granifer	Jung 1989	2 specimens

	Petaloconchus domingensis Sowerby 1849	Jung 1989	4 specimens

	Petaloconchus laddfranklinae Maury 1917	Jung 1989	16 specimens
Gastropoda - Triphoridae

	Triphoridae indet. Gray 1847	Jung 1989	17 specimens
Gastropoda - Naticidae

	Sinum sp. Röding 1798	Jung 1989	2 specimens

	Natica sp. Scopoli 1777	Jung 1989	15 specimens

	Stigmaulax sp. Morch 1852	Jung 1989	20 specimens

	Polinices sp. Monfort 1810	Jung 1989	16 specimens
Gastropoda - Opisthobranchia - Limacinidae

	Limacina (Striolimacina) imitans (Gabb 1873)	Janssen 1999	1 specimen
Gastropoda - Juliidae

	Julia sp. Gould 1862	Jung 1989	1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neritidae

	Neritina figulopicta (Maury 1917)	Costa et al. 2001	1 specimen

	Smaragdia viridis (Linnaeus 1758)	Costa et al. 2001	8 specimens
see common names

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:	6.3 Ma (age-depth)

Stratigraphy

Formation:	Cercado
Local section:	Río Cano	Local bed:	252 m
Local order:	bottom to top
Regional section:	Río Cano	Regional bed:	3
Regional order:	bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:	bed
Stratigraphy comments: AGE: direct date from Cheetham et al. (1999). STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: unit C3 (225-280 m); late Miocene according to Jung (1994, p. 259).

Lithology and environment

Primary lithology:	lithified sandstone
Secondary lithology:	lithified "limestone"
Lithology description: soft bottom communities of reef-associated grass flats
Environment:	coastal indet.
Geology comments: moderate to deep water depth 10-30 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:	94099
Authorizer:	W. Kiessling, A. Hendy	Enterer:	U. Merkel, A. Hendy, M. Krause
Modifier:	A. Hendy	Research group:	marine invertebrate
Created:	2010-02-09 05:47:48	Last modified:	2012-11-26 11:15:57
Access level:	authorizer only	Released:	2012-02-09 05:47:48
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]
26933		F. H. A. Costa, R. H. Neim, and C. S. Hickman. 2001. Neogene paleontology in the Northern Dominican Republic. 22. The family Neritidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Bulletins of American Paleontology 359:47-71 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/P. Wagner]
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]
58961		A. W. Janssen. 1999. Neogene Paleontology in the Northern Dominican Republic 20. Holoplanktonic Mollusks (Gastropoda: Heteropoda and Thecosomata). Bulletins of American Paleontology (358)1-40 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]
42438		P. Jung. 1989. Unpublished notes on Caribbean collection of the Naturhistorisches Museum Basel. [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]
19070		P. Jung. 1994. Neogene Paleontology in the Northern Dominican Republic 15. The Genera Columbella, Eurypyrene, Parametaria, Conella, Nitidella, and Metulella (Gastropoda: Columbellidae). Bulletins of American Paleontology 106(344):1-45 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]
43555		P. Jung and R. E. Petit. 1990. Neogene paleontology in the northern Dominican Republic, 10. The family Cancellariidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Bulletins of American Paleontology 98(334):87-144 [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]
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]
25312		E. H. Vokes. 1989. Neogene Paleontology in the Northern Dominican Republic 8. The Family Muricidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Bulletins of American Paleontology. Bulletins of American Paleontology 97(332):1-94 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]
24476		H. E. Vokes. 1989. Neogene Paleontology in the Northern Dominican Republic 9. The Family Cardiidae (Mollusca: Bivalvia). Bulletins of American Paleontology 97(332):95-161 [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]