NMB Loc. 17293 - Rio Yaque del Norte (Pliocene of Dominican Republic)

Where: Dominican Republic (19.6° N, 71.0° W: paleocoordinates 19.6° N, 70.6° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Globorotalia margaritae zone, Zanclean (5.3 - 3.6 Ma)

• Upper part of Globorotalia margaritae Zone, late Early Pliocene

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified siliciclastic sediments

• slump deposits

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: 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]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 181408: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 12.09.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Thecosomata - Cavoliniidae
Diacria trispinosa de Blainville 1821 snail
Clio pyramidata Linnaeus 1767 snail