Also known as STRI Sample 17073A
Where: La Guajira, Colombia (11.9° N, 71.3° W: paleocoordinates 11.2° N, 68.0° W)
• coordinate based on unpublished field data
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: lower Castilletes Member (Castilletes Formation), Burdigalian (20.4 - 16.0 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Castilletes Formation, which conformably overlies the Jimol Formation (early Miocene) and is unconformably overlain by the Ware Formation. This area and nearby collections have been previously mapped as Castilletes Formaton (late Pliocene-early Pleistocene). AGE: Burdigalian, on the basis of macrofaunal composition; direct age established by extrapolation of Sr-isotope dating by enterer. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From approximately 45 m in regional section.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; unlithified siltstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Preservation: original aragonite, original calcite
Collected by Hendy in 2011
Collection methods: bulk, sieve,
• COLLECTOR: A. Hendy, 03/16/2011. REPOSITORY: Presently reposited at FLMNH, Gainesville.
Primary reference: A. J. W. Hendy, D. S. Jones, F. Moreno, V. Zapata, and C. Jaramillo. 2015. Neogene molluscs, shallow marine paleoenvironments, and chronostratigraphy of the Guajira Peninsula, Colombia. Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 134(1):45-75 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 136881: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 05.12.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Scaphopoda | |
Dentalium sp. Linnaeus 1758 tusk shell | |
Gastropoda | |
Turritella matarucana Hodson 1926 turret shell
Turritella cocoditana Hodson 1926 turret shell | |
Potamides suprasulcatus Gabb 1873 horn snail
Terebralia dentilabris Gabb 1873 horn snail | |
Crucibulum (Dispotaea) sp. Say 1824 slipper shell | |
Neverita (Glossaulax) paraguanensis Hodson 1927 moon snail
Polinices nelsoni moon snail | |
Melongena consors Sowerby 1850 snail | |
Euclia werenfelsi Jung 1965 snail | |
Clathrodrillia sp. Dall 1918 snail | |
Glyphostoma (Glyphostoma) dentiferum Gabb 1872 snail | |
Conus talis Jung 1965 cone shell | |
Oliva sp. Bruguière 1789 olive snail | |
Prunum quirosense Hodson 1927 margin shell | |
Muricidae indet. Rafinesque 1815 murex snail
Cymia cocoditana Hodson 1931 murex snail | |
Persicula venezuelana Hodson et al. 1927 snail | |
Petaloconchus sculpturatus Lea 1846 worm shell | |
Crassispira conica Jung 1965 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Adrana sp. Adams and Adams 1858 pointed nut clam | |
Macoma sp. Leach 1819 tellin clam | |
Chama berjadinensis Hodson 1927 jewel box | |
Gouldia sp. Adams 1847 venus clam | |
Phacoides sp. Blainville 1825 clam |