Also known as STRI Sample 37822
Where: La Guajira, Colombia (11.9° N, 71.4° W: paleocoordinates 11.1° N, 68.1° 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• coordinate based on unpublished field data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: Probably from lower Castilletes Formation, in lower (Patajau - informal) member; from 28 m above the Jimol/Castilletes contact.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lagoonal; lithified, shelly/skeletal, gray siltstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Preservation: original aragonite, original calcite
Collected by Hendy in 2013
Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ),
• COLLECTOR: A. Hendy, 01/22/2013. REPOSITORY: Field observations, not collected.
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 156700: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 28.05.2014
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Potamides suprasulcatus Gabb 1873 horn snail | |
Turritella matarucana Hodson 1926 turret shell
Turritella cocoditana Hodson 1926 turret shell | |
Melongena consors Sowerby 1850 snail | |
Eupleura kugleri Jung 1965 murex snail
Cymia cocoditana Hodson 1931 murex snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Caryocorbula fortis Jung 1965 clam | |
"Chionopsis paraguanensis" = Chione (Chionopsis) tegulum, Gouldia sp.
"Chionopsis paraguanensis" = Chione (Chionopsis) tegulum Brown and Pilsbry 1911 venus clam
Gouldia sp. Adams 1847 venus clam | |
Angulus sp. Megerle 1811 tellin clam | |
Anodontia sp. Link 1807 clam
Phacoides sp. Blainville 1825 clam | |
Paraleptopecten quirosensis | |
Paraleptopecten quirosensis Harris 1927 |