U.C. Loc. S-8012 [Los Perdices Shale] (Miocene of Colombia)

Where: Colombia (11.0° N, 75.0° W: paleocoordinates 9.9° N, 71.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Los Perdices Shale Formation, Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From Los Perdices Shale, which regionally underlies the Tuberá Gp (Early-Late Miocene) and overlies the "Poso Series" (Oligocene). AGE: Early Miocene in text; same in Anderson (1929). STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within formation.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; poorly lithified shale

• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Shale. LITHIFICATION: Poorly-lithified, on the basis of figured specimens.

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Anderson; reposited in the CAS

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• COLLECTOR: F. Anderson, c. 1920's. REPOSITORY: California Academy of Sciences (CAS).

Primary reference: R. L. Gertman. 1969. Cenozoic Typhinae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of the Western Atlantic region. Tulane Studies in Geology and Paleontology 7(4):143-192 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 92694: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 24.11.2009

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Limited to taxa described in text. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication, with modern nomenclature, and species-resolution identifications.
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Gastropoda
 Neogastropoda - Muricidae
Siphonochelus (Laevityphis) schencki n. sp., Typhis (Talityphis) precursor n. sp.
Siphonochelus (Laevityphis) schencki n. sp. Keen and Campbell 1964 murex snail
Typhis (Talityphis) precursor n. sp. Keen and Campbell 1964 murex snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Personidae
Distorsio clathrata
Distorsio clathrata Lamarck 1816 snail