. Bulletins of American paleontology. Dominican Republic NEOciENE. 8: E. H. Yokes leoecology of the Ncogene of the Dominican Republic, to be funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation and the Institul Fran^ais du Pctrole. With a group of surveyors, sedimcntologists, micro- and mega-pale- ontologists, they began their work in 1978, making detailed stratigraphic measurements as well as maps. The results of their work are documented in Saunders, Jung, and Biju-Duval (1986). We soon were apprised of their work by a mutual friend, Willem van den Bold, ostracode specialist at Louisiana State Un
. Bulletins of American paleontology. Dominican Republic NEOciENE. 8: E. H. Yokes leoecology of the Ncogene of the Dominican Republic, to be funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation and the Institul Fran^ais du Pctrole. With a group of surveyors, sedimcntologists, micro- and mega-pale- ontologists, they began their work in 1978, making detailed stratigraphic measurements as well as maps. The results of their work are documented in Saunders, Jung, and Biju-Duval (1986). We soon were apprised of their work by a mutual friend, Willem van den Bold, ostracode specialist at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, who was part of their team. The obvious course was to pool our resources. Our megafossil collections have been made available to any specialist who desires to participate. In return, the muricids collected by the NMB workers were sent to Tulane to be incorporated into this study. Thus, the present paper is based upon both the col- lections made by us and by the NMB team (Text-fig. 1). The original (and subsequent) philosophies of the Basel Project and the Yokes' collections were not the same. The Basel team went with the express goal of producing a detailed (and accurate) stratigraphic sec- tion. Our interest was primarily paleontologic with the goal being to localize the numerous unlocalized species described by Gabb and others and to collect as many different localities as possible. The Basel team concen- trated almost all of their efforts on the Rio Cana and Rio Gurabo sections, with lesser concentration on the Rio Amina, Rio Mao, and Rio Yaque del Norte. We collected everywhere we could manage to get to, not only on the rivers but along roadcuts and trails between the rivers. Localities in some cases overlap, but in the interest of scientific accuracy they have been cited sep- arately — Tulane localities as "TU" and those of the Naturhistorisches Museum Basel as "NMB". The Tu- lane University collecting localities have been i
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