HB-743 [Tubará Fm]: Early/Lower Pliocene, Colombia
collected by Bürgl

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Melongenidae
Melongena consors (Sowerby 1850)
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
Pitaria (Lamelliconcha) casta (Pilsbry and Brown 1917)
recombined as Lamelliconcha casta
Bivalvia - Arcida - Arcidae
Arca (Senilia) chiriquiensis (Gabb 1861)
recombined as Anadara (Grandiarca) chiriquiensis
SUBSPECIES: Arca (Senilia) chiriquiensis bolivari
Bivalvia - Arcida - Noetiidae
Arca (Noetia) mayensis (Maury 1925)
original and current combination Noetia mayensis
Arca (Noetia) macdonaldi (Dall 1912)
recombined as Noetia macdonaldi
unclassified
Glycymeris lloydsmithi Brown and Pilsbry 1917
recombined as Tucetona canalis lloydsmithi
SUBSPECIES: Glycymeris lloydsmithi multicostata
see common names

Geography
Country:Colombia
Coordinates: 10.8° North, 75.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:10.6° North, 74.3° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Pliocene
Stage:Zanclean 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Early/Lower Pliocene
Age range of interval:5.33300 - 3.60000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Tubará
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: 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.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "siliciclastic"
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: LITHIFICATION: Unknown. LITHOLOGY: No lithologic data provided, but assumed to be siliciclastic.
Environment:marine indet.
Geology comments: No paleoenvironmental data provided.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some genera,some macrofossils
Collection methods:surface (in situ),field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collectors:Bürgl
Collection method comments: COLLECTORS: H. Bürgl. REPOSITORY: Museo Geológico Nacional, Bogota, Colombia.
Taxonomic list comments:COVERAGE: Exhaustive for mollusca. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication, with somewhat antiquated nomenclature, and species-resolution identifications.
Metadata
Database number:133224
Authorizer:A. Hendy Enterer:A. Hendy
Modifier:A. Hendy Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2012-09-06 13:58:18 Last modified:2013-11-25 13:37:23
Access level:authorizer only Released:2014-09-06 13:58:18
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

33369. M. Barrios. 1960. Algunos moluscos del Terciario Medio de Colombia. Boletin Geologico 6(1-3):213-306 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]