BIBLIOS

Document type
Journal articles

Document subtype
Full paper

Title
A new species of Harpa (Gastropoda: Volutoidea) from the Neogene of the Dominican Republic: Paleobiogeographical implications

Participants in the publication
Landau, B.M. (Author)
Frydman, F. (Author)
Silva, C.M. da (Author)
Dep. Geologia
CEGUL

Summary
The rich and diversified Neogene fossiliferous assemblages from the northern Dominican Republic have been known for over 150 years (G. B. Sowerby II, 1850). More recently, these assemblages have been studied in a systematic taxonomic way as part of the “Dominican project”, and these results published in the journal “Bulletins of American Paleontology” (e.g. Vokes, 1989, 1998; Jung & Petit, 1990; Jung, 1994; Freiheit & Greary, 2009). For an account of the history and philosophy behind the various Dominican collecting ventures see Vokes (1989). This work is the first of a series of papers describing new gastropod taxa from these Dominican assemblages belonging to taxonomic groups already monographed by the “Dominican project”, but found subsequent to the publication of these works, and the result of 20 years collecting in the Dominican Republic by the authors. The genus Harpa in the Dominican Neogene deposits was revised by Vokes (1998).


Institution
FACULDADE DE CIÊNCIAS DA UNIVERSIDADE DE LISBOA

Where published
Veliger

Publication Identifiers
ISSN - 0042-3211