HB-1593 [Tubará Fm]: Early/Lower Pliocene, Colombia
collected by Bürgl

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Turritellidae
Turritella lloydsmithi Pilsbry and Brown 1917
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Olividae
Oliva cylindrica Sowerby 1850
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Buccinidae
Cantharus (Hanetia) cochlearis (Guppy 1873)
recombined as Solenosteira (Solenosteira) cochlearis
SUBSPECIES: Cantharus (Hanetia) cochlearis magdalensis
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Cancellariidae
Cancellaria scheibei Anderson 1929
recombined as Pyruclia scheibei
Gastropoda - Naticidae
Polynices subclausa
original and current combination Polinices
Bivalvia - Arcida - Arcidae
Arca (Anadara) usiacurii Anderson 1929
recombined as Anadara (Grandiarca) usiacurii
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Pecten circularis Sowerby 1835
synonym of Argopecten ventricosus
SUBSPECIES: Pecten circularis cornellanus
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
Venus (Chione) latilirata (Conrad 1841)
recombined as Lirophora (Lirophora) latilirata
SUBSPECIES: Venus (Chione) latilirata colombiana
Venus (Chione) cancellata (Linnaeus 1767)
recombined as Chione cancellata
Bivalvia - Carditida - Carditidae
Cardita (Venericardia) terryi (Olsson 1922)
recombined as Cyclocardia terryi
unclassified
Glycymeris lloydsmithi Brown and Pilsbry 1917
recombined as Tucetona canalis lloydsmithi
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:133233
Authorizer:A. Hendy Enterer:A. Hendy
Modifier:A. Hendy Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2012-09-06 14:10:41 Last modified:2013-11-25 13:37:23
Access level:authorizer only Released:2014-09-06 14:10:41
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]