NMB Loc. 15893 - Rio Gurabo [Cercado Fm] (Miocene of Dominican Republic)

Where: Dominican Republic (19.5° N, 71.2° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 20.3° N, 68.9° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Cercado Formation, Tortonian (11.6 - 7.2 Ma)

• AGE: direct date extrapolated from Cheetham et al. (1999) and Saunders et al. (1986). STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: unit G2 (140-150 m), uppermost Cercado or lower Gurabo Formation.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: perireef or subreef; lithified limestone and lithified siliciclastic

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: 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]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 94093: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 09.02.2010, edited by Austin Hendy

Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Merulinidae
"Montastrea limbata" = Orbicella limbata2
"Montastrea limbata" = Orbicella limbata2 Duncan 1863 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Montastraeidae
Montastrea cavernosa2 Linne 1767 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Poritidae
Porites portoricensis3 Vaughan 1919 stony coral
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Mimachlamys blowi n. sp.4 Waller 2011 scallop
Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Ranellidae
Charonia variegata1 Lamarck 1816 triton