PBDB Collection

NMB Loc. 16852 - Río Cano [Gurabo Fm]: Messinian, Dominican Republic

List of taxa

Where & when

Geology

Taphonomy & methods

Metadata & references

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Mussidae

	Manicina jungi Budd and Johnson 1999	Budd and Johnson 1999

	Manicina grandis (Duncan 1864)	Budd and Johnson 1999
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Poritidae

	Porites convivatoris n. sp. Foster 1986	Foster 1986
Gastropoda - Cerithiidae

	Cerithiidae indet. (Fleming 1822)	Jung 1989	20 specimens

	Alabina canaliculata	Jung 1989	1 specimen
Gastropoda - Ampullinidae

	Pachycrommium sp. Woodring 1928	Jung 1989	24 specimens
Gastropoda - Naticidae

	Tectonatica sp. Sacco 1890	Jung 1989	1 specimen

	Natica sp. Scopoli 1777	Jung 1989	1 specimen

	Stigmaulax sp. Morch 1852	Jung 1989	3 specimens

	Neverita (Hypterita) sp. Woodring 1957	Jung 1989	4 specimens

	Polinices sp. Monfort 1810	Jung 1989	2 specimens
Gastropoda - Triphoridae

	Triphoridae indet. Gray 1847	Jung 1989	4 specimens
Gastropoda - Tonnidae

	Tonna pennata (Mörch 1853)	Beu 2010	1 specimen

	Malea elliptica Pilsbry and Johnston 1917	Beu 2010	1 specimen
Gastropoda - Ranellidae

	Monoplex cercadicus (Maury 1917)	Beu 2010	1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Cancellariidae

	Cancellaria (Cancellaria) harrisi (Maury 1917)	Jung and Petit 1990
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Terebridae

	Terebridae indet. Mörch 1852	Jung 1989	1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Melongenidae

	Melongena sp. Schumacher 1817	Jung 1989	2 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Fasciolariidae

	Fusinus henekeni (Sowerby 1850)	Jung 1989	3 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Marginellidae

	Prunum maoense (Maury 1917)	Nehm 2001	4 specimens
	original and current combination Marginella maoensis
Gastropoda - Cypraeidae

	Erosaria spurca (Linnaeus 1758)	Jung 1989	1 specimen

	Erronea raymondrobertsi (Pilsbry 1922)	Jung 1989	2 specimens
	recombined as Pseudozonaria raymondrobertsi
Gastropoda - Strombidae

	Lobatus dominator (Pilsbry 1917)	Freiheit and Geary 2009

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

	Smaragdia viridis (Linnaeus 1758)	Costa et al. 2001	1 specimen
Gastropoda - Juliidae

	Julia sp. Gould 1862	Jung 1989	1 specimen
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae

	Argopecten eccentricus (Gabb 1873)	Waller 2011	1 specimen

	Lindapecten plurinominis (Pilsbry and Johnson 1917)	Waller 2011	1 specimen
Bivalvia - Lucinida - Lucinidae

	Lucinidae indet. Fleming 1828	Jung 1989	7 specimens
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Corbulidae

	Corbula (Panamicorbula) sp. (Pilsbry 1932)	Anderson 1996
	original and current combination Panamicorbula

	Corbula (Panamicorbula) canae Anderson 1996	Anderson 1996
	recombined as Panamicorbula canae
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:	6.5 Ma (age-depth)

Stratigraphy

Formation:	Gurabo
Local section:	Río Cano	Local bed:	228 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 extrapolated from Cheetham et al. (1999) and Saunders et al. (1986). STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: unit C3 (225-280 m), sample ca. 225 m above base, basal Gurabo Formation.

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:	93717
Authorizer:	W. Kiessling, A. Hendy	Enterer:	U. Merkel, A. Hendy
Modifier:	A. Hendy	Research group:	marine invertebrate
Created:	2010-01-29 02:35:56	Last modified:	2012-12-07 09:28:15
Access level:	the public	Released:	2010-01-29 02:35:56
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:

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]
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]
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]
31838		A. B. Foster. 1986. Neogene paleontology in the northern Dominican Republic, 3. The family Poritidae (Anthozoa, Scleractinia). Bulletins of American Paleontology 90:47-123 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]
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]
42438		P. Jung. 1989. Unpublished notes on Caribbean collection of the Naturhistorisches Museum Basel. [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]
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]