HB-1567 [Tubará Fm] (Pliocene of Colombia)

Where: Colombia (10.8° N, 75.0° W: paleocoordinates 10.6° N, 74.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Tubará Formation, Early/Lower Pliocene (5.3 - 3.6 Ma)

• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: From the Tubará Formation, which overlies the Las Pedices Group (Early Miocene), and is overlain by the Galapa Group (Late Miocene). AGE: Early Miocene, according Barrios (1960), but assigned by the enterer to the Early Pliocene based on more recent biostratigraphic correlations. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within section.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; siliciclastic sediments

• No paleoenvironmental data provided.
• LITHIFICATION: Unknown. LITHOLOGY: No lithologic data provided, but assumed to be siliciclastic.

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Bürgl

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• COLLECTORS: H. Bürgl. REPOSITORY: Museo Geológico Nacional, Bogota, Colombia.

Primary reference: M. Barrios. 1960. Algunos moluscos del Terciario Medio de Colombia. Boletin Geologico 6(1-3):213-306 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 133229: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 06.09.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Exhaustive for mollusca. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication, with somewhat antiquated nomenclature, and species-resolution identifications.
Bivalvia
 Carditida - Carditidae
"Cardita (Venericardia) zuliana" = Cyclocardia zuliana
"Cardita (Venericardia) zuliana" = Cyclocardia zuliana Hodson 1929 clam
 Cardiida - Chamidae
"Echinochama antiquata" = Arcinella antiquata
"Echinochama antiquata" = Arcinella antiquata Guppy 1866 jewel box
 Cardiida - Veneridae
"Pitaria (Lamellaria) casta" = Lamelliconcha casta
"Pitaria (Lamellaria) casta" = Lamelliconcha casta Pilsbry and Brown 1917 venus clam
Gastropoda
 Neogastropoda - Cancellariidae
"Cancellaria cibarcola" = Cancellaria (Pyruclia) cibarcola
"Cancellaria cibarcola" = Cancellaria (Pyruclia) cibarcola Anderson 1929 snail
 Neogastropoda - Olividae
Oliva cylindrica Sowerby 1850 olive snail
 Neogastropoda - Terebridae
"Terebra gausapata" = Strioterebrum gausapatum
"Terebra gausapata" = Strioterebrum gausapatum Brown and Pilsbry 1911 auger snail
 Neogastropoda - Turridae
"Turris albida" = Polystira albida
"Turris albida" = Polystira albida Perry 1811 turrid
SUBSPECIES: Turris albida virgo
 Sorbeoconcha - Naticidae
"Natica canrena" = Naticarius canrena
"Natica canrena" = Naticarius canrena Linnaeus 1758 moon snail
Tucetona canalis
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"Glycymeris lloydsmithi" = Tucetona canalis lloydsmithi
"Glycymeris lloydsmithi" = Tucetona canalis lloydsmithi Brown and Pilsbry 1917