The genus Cittarium (Vetigastropoda: Trochoidea) in the Upper Miocene of the Dominican Republic with the description of a new species

Bernard Landau; Gijs C. Kronenberg; Carlos M. da Silva

doi:10.1017/jpa.2015.38

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1 July 2015 The genus Cittarium (Vetigastropoda: Trochoidea) in the Upper Miocene of the Dominican Republic with the description of a new species

Bernard Landau, Gijs C. Kronenberg, Carlos M. da Silva

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J. of Paleontology, 89(4):589-593 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1017/jpa.2015.38

Abstract

Today, the marine gastropod genus Cittarium is present only in the West Indies faunas, represented by a single species C. pica, also known from the Pleistocene of Bermuda. Herein Cittarium praepica n. sp. is described from the Upper Miocene Cercado Formation of the Dominican Republic. This is the oldest fossil record for the genus in the eastern Tropical America. The new species is compared to the Pleistocene to Recent Caribbean C. pica and to C. maestratii Lozouet, 2002 of the Upper Oligocene of France. The importance of this new record for the geological history and the biogeography of the genus are discussed.

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Bernard Landau, Gijs C. Kronenberg, and Carlos M. da Silva "The genus Cittarium (Vetigastropoda: Trochoidea) in the Upper Miocene of the Dominican Republic with the description of a new species," Journal of Paleontology 89(4), 589-593, (1 July 2015). https://doi.org/10.1017/jpa.2015.38

Accepted: 31 July 2015; Published: 1 July 2015

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