Selva Alegre [Borbon Fm]: Middle Miocene, Ecuador
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Conidae
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Conus mompichiensis
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new species | ||||||||||
Conus angosturis
Olsson 1964
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alegris new subspecies | ||||||||||
Bivalvia
- Arcida
- Arcidae
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Anadara (Diluvarca) colomba
(Olsson 1932)
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recombined as Anadara (Tosarca) columba | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | Ecuador | State/province: | Esmeraldas |
Coordinates: | 1.1° North, 79.0° West (view map) | ||
Paleocoordinates: | 0.3° North, 76.2° West | ||
Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit | ||
Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 5 | ||
Key time interval: | Middle Miocene | ||
Age range of interval: | 15.98000 - 11.63000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | coarse lithified conglomerate |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Lithology description: The base of the formation is a coarse conglomerate exposed at Selva Alegre. | |
Environment: | marginal marine indet. |
Geology comments: The molluscan fossils would seem to indicate a lagoonal to fully marine environment of deposition, the fossiliferous beds of irregular or patchy occurrence. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes: | some genera |
Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Taxonomic list comments:only a few taxa noted from this locality. not likely to be the complete fauna |
Metadata
Database number: | 60752 | ||
Authorizer: | A. Miller | Enterer: | K. Bulinski |
Modifier: | A. Hendy | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
Created: | 2006-05-22 10:31:04 | Last modified: | 2012-08-25 22:23:12 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2006-05-22 10:31:04 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
17422. | A. A. Olsson. 1964. Neogene Mollusks From Northwestern Ecuador [A. Miller/K. Bulinski] |