PBDB Collection

NMB Loc. 15907 - Río Gurabo [Cercado Fm]: Tortonian, Dominican Republic

List of taxa

Where & when

Geology

Taphonomy & methods

Metadata & references

Taxonomic list

Malacostraca - Decapoda - Calcinidae

	Dardanus squamatus n. sp. Collins et al. 2009	Collins et al. 2009	1 specimen
Gastropoda - Cerithiidae

	Cerithiidae indet. (Fleming 1822)	Jung 1989	19 specimens

	Bittium yaguense Gabb 1873	Jung 1989	146 specimens
Gastropoda - Potamididae

	Potamides sp. Brongniart 1810	Jung 1989	1 specimen
Gastropoda - Ampullinidae

	Pachycrommium sp. Woodring 1928	Jung 1989	11 specimens
Gastropoda - Naticidae

	Naticidae indet. Guilding 1834	Jung 1989	1 specimen

	Tectonatica sp. Sacco 1890	Jung 1989	21 specimens

	Natica sp. Scopoli 1777	Jung 1989	2 specimens

	Stigmaulax sp. Morch 1852	Jung 1989	600 specimens

	Sinum sp. Röding 1798	Jung 1989	9 specimens

	Polinices sp. Monfort 1810	Jung 1989	640 specimens
Gastropoda - Cassidae

	Semicassis reclusa (Guppy 1873)	Beu 2010	341 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Cancellariidae

	Aphera islacolonis (Maury 1917)	Jung and Petit 1990

	Cancellaria (Cancellaria) guppyi (Gabb 1873)	Jung and Petit 1990

	Cancellaria (Bivetiella) epistomifera (Guppy 1876)	Jung and Petit 1990
	recombined as Bivetiella epistomifera

	Cancellaria (Hertleinia) miranda Jung and Petit 1990	Jung and Petit 1990
	recombined as Hertleinia miranda
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Terebridae

	Terebridae indet. Mörch 1852	Jung 1989	1023 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Columbellidae

	Metulella venusta (Sowerby 1850)	Jung 1994	2 specimens

	Sincola (Sincola) gurabensis (Maury 1917)	Jung 1989	716 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Fasciolariidae

	Fusinus henekeni (Sowerby 1850)	Jung 1989	25 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Turbinellidae

	Turbinella praelaevigata Vokes 1964	Vokes 1998
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Marginellidae

	Prunum maoense (Maury 1917)	Nehm 2001	6 specimens
	original and current combination Marginella maoensis
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Muricidae

	Murex (Haustellum) messorius (Sowerby 1841)	Vokes 1989
	recombined as Vokesimurex messorius
Gastropoda - Ficidae

	Ficus gibsonsmithi Beu 2010	Beu 2010	3 specimens
Gastropoda - Neotaenioglossa - Calyptraeidae

	Crucibulum (Dispotaea) sp. (Say 1824)	Jung 1989	5 specimens
Gastropoda - Opisthobranchia - Cavoliniidae

	Cavolinia mexicana (Collins 1934)	Janssen 1999	2 specimens

	Cavolinia gypsorum (Bellardi 1873)	Janssen 1999	1 specimen

	Cavolinia aff. gypsorum (Bellardi 1873)	Janssen 1999	1 specimen

	Cuvierina astesana (Rang 1829)	Janssen 1999	4 specimens
Gastropoda - Opisthobranchia - Limacinidae

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

	Smaragdia viridis (Linnaeus 1758)	Costa et al. 2001	30 specimens
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae

	Argopecten eccentricus (Gabb 1873)	Waller 2011	1495 specimens
Bivalvia - Lucinida - Lucinidae

	Lucinidae indet. Fleming 1828	Jung 1989	89 specimens
Bivalvia - Poromyida - Cuspidariidae

	Cardiomya (Cardiomya) islahispaniolae (Maury 1917)	Jung 1996	3 specimens
see common names

Geography

Country:	Dominican Republic
Coordinates:	19.5° North, 71.2° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:	19.5° North, 70.2° West
Basis of coordinate:	based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:	small collection

Time

Period:	Neogene	Epoch:	Miocene
Stage:	Tortonian	10 m.y. bin:	Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:	Tortonian
Age range of interval:	11.63000 - 7.24600 m.y. ago
Age estimate:	7.7 Ma (age-depth)

Stratigraphy

Formation:	Cercado
Local section:	Río Gurabo	Local bed:	127 m
Local order:	bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:	bed
Stratigraphy comments: STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From Cercado Formation, which unconformably overlies the Baitoa Formation, and is overlain by the Gurabo Formation. AGE: Late Miocene, based on Table 1 of Saunders et al. (1986); direct date from Cheetham et al. (1999). STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From 127 m above base of section.

Lithology and environment

Primary lithology:	poorly lithified "siliciclastic"
Includes fossils?	Y
Lithology description: LITHOLOGY: Unknown, but presumably siliciclastic. LITHIFICATION: Not stated in text, but figured specimen is free of sediment.
Environment:	marine indet.
Geology comments: deeper (more than 10-20 m), more turbid reef habitats

Taphonomy

Modes of preservation:	body
Size of fossils:	macrofossils

Collection methods and comments

Collection methods:	surface (in situ),field collection
Reason for describing collection:	taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:	NMB
Collection method comments: COLLECTORS: Unknown. REPOSITORY: NMB (Naturhistoriches Museum Basel).
Taxonomic list comments:COVERAGE: Limited to decapoda. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication, with modern nomenclature, and species-resolution identification.

Metadata

Database number:	99852
Authorizer:	A. Hendy, W. Kiessling	Enterer:	A. Hendy, M. Krause
Modifier:	A. Hendy	Research group:	marine invertebrate
Created:	2010-11-25 11:38:07	Last modified:	2013-11-25 13:37:23
Access level:	authorizer only	Released:	2012-11-25 11:38:07
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]
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]
34337		J. S. H. Collins, R. W. Portell, and S. K. Donovan. 2009. Decapod crustaceans from the Neogene of the Caribbean: diversity, distribution and prospectus. Scripta Geologica 138:55-111 [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]
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]
26828		P. Jung. 1989. Revision of the Strombina-group (Gastropoda; Columbellidae), fossil and living. Schweierische Paläontologische Abhandlungen 111:1-298 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]
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]
25339		P. Jung. 1996. Neogene paleontology in the northern Dominican Republic: 17. The familes Cuspidariidae and Verticordiidae (Mollusca: Bivalvia). Bulletins of American Paleontology 110(351):35-54 [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]
18707		E. H. Vokes. 1998. Neogene Paleontology in the Northern Dominican Republic 18. The Superfamily Volutacea (in part) (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Bulletins of American Paleontology 113(354):1-54 [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]