Where: Bolivar, Colombia (10.4° N, 75.5° W: paleocoordinates 9.8° N, 72.9° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Middle Miocene (16.0 - 11.6 Ma)
• Middle Miocene age based on correlation with other Caribbean fossil assemblages and by stratigraphic relations. Thickness in the Zambrano-Carmen section may be as much as 5,000 ft. Fossils are stratigraphically lower than those from Jesus del Monte.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the PRI
• Collections reposited at Cornell University (now PRI collections). Many collections collected by C.C. Anderson.
Primary reference: N. E. Weisbord. 1929. Miocene Mollusca of Northern Colombia. Bulletin of American Paleontology 14(54):1-310 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/O. Alfaro]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 60687: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 20.05.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Turritella cf. falconensis, "Turritella supraconcava" = Turritella abrupta, Turritella cf. gatunensis
Turritella cf. falconensis turret shell
"Turritella supraconcava" = Turritella abrupta Spieker 1922 turret shell
Turritella cf. gatunensis Conrad 1857 turret shell | |
"Potamides (Lampanella) ormei" = Potamides suprasulcatus, "Potamides (Pyrazisinus) bolivarensis" = Terebralia dentilabris
"Potamides (Lampanella) ormei" = Potamides suprasulcatus Gabb 1873 horn snail
"Potamides (Pyrazisinus) bolivarensis" = Terebralia dentilabris Gabb 1873 horn snail | |
"Mitra colombiana" = Subcancilla colombiana
"Mitra colombiana" = Subcancilla colombiana Weisbord 1929 mitre shell | |
"Melongena colombiana" = Torquifer colombiana
"Melongena colombiana" = Torquifer colombiana Weisbord 1929 snail | |
"Pleurotoma barretti" = Polystira barretti
"Pleurotoma barretti" = Polystira barretti Guppy 1866 turrid Subspecies: T. albida barretti=Polystira
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"Distorsio cf. simillimus" = Distorsio simillima
"Distorsio cf. simillimus" = Distorsio simillima Sowerby 1850 snail | |
"Architectonica granulatum" = Architectonica nobilis
"Architectonica granulatum" = Architectonica nobilis Röding 1798 sundial | |
Bivalvia | |
"Scapharca chiriquiensis" = Anadara (Grandiarca) chiriquiensis
"Scapharca chiriquiensis" = Anadara (Grandiarca) chiriquiensis Gabb 1861 ark Subspecies: S. chiriquiensis bolivari
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"Corbula (Cuneocorbula) hexacyma" = Hexacorbula hexacyma
"Corbula (Cuneocorbula) hexacyma" = Hexacorbula hexacyma Brown and Pilsbry 1913 clam |