TU 1411 (Río Guanajuma): Late/Upper Miocene, Dominican Republic

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
Periglypta sp. Jukes-Browne 1914
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Chamidae
Chama involuta Guppy 1873
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Corbulidae
Caryocorbula sericea (Dall 1898)
Anderson 1996
recombined as Corbula (Caryocorbula) sericea
Bivalvia - Arcida - Glycymerididae
Tucetona acuticostata (Sowerby 1849)
36 specimens
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Argopecten sp. Monterosato 1889
2 specimens
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Anomiidae
Anomia simplex d'Orbigny 1845
2 specimens
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Hyotissa haitense
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Naticidae
Natica (Natica) sp. Scopoli 1777
1 specimen
Polinices sp. Monfort 1810
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Strombidae
Strombus sp. Linnaeus 1758
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Cassidae
Sconsia (Sconsia) striata (Lamarck 1816)
2 specimens
replaced by Sconsia grayi
Gastropoda - Personidae
Distorsio simillima (Sowerby 1850)
Beu 2010 3 specimens
Distorsio mcgintyi Emerson and Puffer 1953
Beu 2010 1 specimen
Gastropoda - Xenophoridae
Xenophora delecta (Guppy 1876)
5 specimens
Gastropoda - Ovulidae
Simnia sp. Risso 1826
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Muricidae
Chicoreus (Chicoreus) cornurectus (Guppy 1876)
Vokes 1989
recombined as Chicoreus (Triplex) cornurectus
Chicoreus (Siratus) domingensis (Sowerby 1850)
Vokes 1989 3 specimens
Murex (Haustellum) messorius (Sowerby 1841)
Vokes 1989 29 specimens
recombined as Vokesimurex messorius
Murex (Haustellum) pennae (Maury 1934)
Vokes 1989
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Volutidae
Lyria (Lyria) pulchella (Sowerby 1850)
12 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Marginellidae
Marginella sp. Lamarck 1799
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Drilliidae
Drillia cercadonsis
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Turridae
Polystira haitensis (Sowerby 1850)
20 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Conidae
Conus planiliratus Sowerby 1850
28 specimens
recombined as Conasprelloides planiliratus
Conus symmetricus Sowerby 1849
22 specimens
recombined as Purpuriconus symmetricus
Conus consorbrinus
5 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Olividae
Olivella sp. Swainson 1831
4 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Fasciolariidae
Fusinus henekeni (Sowerby 1850)
6 specimens
Fusinus haitensis (Sowerby 1850)
2 specimens
recombined as Fusinus henekeni haitensis
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Buccinidae
Antillophos moorei (Guppy 1866)
14 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Columbellidae
Metulella sp. Gabb 1873
4 specimens
Metulella venusta (Sowerby 1850)
19 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Cancellariidae
Cancellaria (Cancellaria) cf. guppyi (Gabb 1873)
1 specimen
Cancellaria (Bivetiella) epistomifera Guppy 1876
1 specimen
recombined as Bivetiella epistomifera
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Turbinellidae
Turbinella praetextilis Vokes 1998
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Cerithiidae
Cerithium sp. Bruguière 1789
5 specimens
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Architectonicidae
Architectonica (Architectonica) nobilis (Röding 1798)
2 specimens
original and current combination Architectonica nobilis
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Caryophylliidae
Asterosmilia abnormalis (Duncan 1864)
Cairns and Wells 1987
see common names

Geography
Country:Dominican Republic
Coordinates: 19.5° North, 71.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:19.5° North, 70.2° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Late/Upper Miocene
Age range of interval:11.63000 - 5.33300 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: AGE: Placed in Late Miocene by enterer on the basis of known age range faunal constituents. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION:
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: unlithified "siliciclastic"
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Unknown, presumably silcicilastic. LITHIFICATION: Unlithified based on observation of figures.
Environment:coastal indet.
Geology comments: ENVIRONMENT: Appearing to be shallow marine siliciclastic environment.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original aragonite,original calcite
Degree of concentration:concentrated
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:bulk,sieve,field collection
Minimum sieve size:4.000
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Museum repositories:PRI
Collection method comments: COLLECTOR: E. Vokes. REPOSITORY: PRI. FIDELITY: Moderate ecological fidelity.
Taxonomic list comments:TAXONOMY: Most taxa Identified by A. Hendy, with some earlier identifications by E. Vokes, P. Jung, H. Vokes, L. Anderson.
Metadata
Database number:74914
Authorizer:A. Hendy, W. Kiessling Enterer:A. Hendy, U. Merkel
Modifier:A. Hendy Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2007-09-05 13:37:57 Last modified:2013-11-25 13:37:23
Access level:authorizer only Released:2009-09-05 13:37:57
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
19909. A. J. W. Hendy, D. P. Buick, K. V. Bulinski, C. A. Ferguson, and A. I. Miller. 2008. Unpublished census data from Atlantic coastal plain and circum-Caribbean Neogene assemblages and taxonomic opinions. [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]

Secondary references:

24475 L. C. Anderson. 1996. Neogene Paleontology in the Northern Dominican Republic 16. The Family Corbulidae (Mollusca: Bivalvia). Bulletins of American Paleontology 110(351):5-34 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]
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]
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]
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]
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]