CAS Loc. 267 (horizon R), Tubará Mtn [Tubará Fm]: Early/Lower Pliocene, Colombia
collected by Andeson

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Carditida - Crassatellidae
Crassatellites berryi Spieker 1922
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
Cardium (Trachycardium) puebloense n. sp. Anderson 1929
recombined as Trachycardium (Dallocardia) puebloense
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Tellinidae
Tellina (Eurytellina) aequicincta Spieker 1922
recombined as Eurytellina aequicincta
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
Chione (Chione) walli (Guppy 1866)
recombined as Chione walli
Pitaria cercadica Maury 1917
recombined as Pitar (Pitar) cercadica
Pitaria acutecostata (Gabb 1873)
recombined as Lamelliconcha acutecostata
Cyclinella gatunensis Dall 1903
synonym of Cyclinella cyclica
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Anatinellidae
Labiosa (Raeta) gibbosa (Gabb 1870)
    = Raeta hasletti Anderson 1929
Woodring 1982
Labiosa (Raeta) gardnerae Spieker 1922
    = Raeta hasletti Anderson 1929
Woodring 1982
Bivalvia - Thraciida - Periplomatidae
Periploma caribana n. sp. Anderson 1929
Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Yoldiidae
Yoldia pisciformis Brown and Pilsbry 1917
Gastropoda - Trochidae
Calliostoma grabaui Maury 1917
Gastropoda - Turritellidae
Turritella gatunensis Conrad 1857
Gastropoda - Naticidae
Ampullaria tuberacola n. sp. Anderson 1929
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Melongenidae
Melongena propatulus n. sp. Anderson 1929
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Fasciolariidae
Fusinus henekeni (Sowerby 1850)
Fasciolaria olssoni Anderson 1929
recombined as Pleuroploca olssoni
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Cancellariidae
Cancellaria cibarcola Anderson 1929
recombined as Cancellaria (Pyruclia) cibarcola
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Olividae
Oliva tuberaensis n. sp. Anderson 1929
Oliva sayana Ravenel 1834
recombined as Oliva (Ispidula) sayana
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Conidae
Conus recognitus Guppy 1867
synonym of Conus (Pyruconus) recognitus
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Terebridae
Terebra gatunensis (Toula 1908)
recombined as Strioterebrum gatunensis
Terebra sulcifera Sowerby 1849
recombined as Terebra (Paraterebra) sulcifera
Gastropoda - Personidae
Distortrix simillima (Sowerby 1850)
recombined as Distorsio simillima
Distorsio clathrata (Lamarck 1816)
Beu 2010
Gastropoda - Tonnidae
Malea ringens (Swainson 1822)
see common names

Geography
Country:Colombia
Coordinates: 11.0° North, 75.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:10.8° North, 74.2° 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 horizon R.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: poorly lithified "siliciclastic"
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Not stated in text, but apparently siliciclastic. LITHIFICATION: Poorly-lithified-unlithified, on the basis of figured specimens.
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ),field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collectors:Andeson
Collection method comments: COLLECTOR: F. Andeson, c. 1920's. REPOSITORY: California Academy of Sciences (CAS).
Taxonomic list comments:COVERAGE: Exhaustive for bivalves and gastropods. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication, with somewhat antiquated nomenclature, but with species-resolution identifications.
Metadata
Database number:88298
Authorizer:A. Hendy Enterer:A. Hendy
Modifier:A. Hendy Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2009-04-06 13:44:03 Last modified:2013-11-25 13:37:23
Access level:the public Released:2009-04-06 13:44:03
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

29644. F. M. Anderson. 1929. Marine Miocene and related deposits of North Colombia. Proceedings of the Academy of Sciences 18(4):73-213 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]

Secondary references:

30037 A. G. Beu. 2010. Neogene Tonnoidean Gastropods of Tropical and South America; contributions to the Dominican Republic and Panama Paleontology Projects and Uplift of the Central American Isthmus. Bulletins of American Paleontology (377-378)1-550 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]
13359 W. P. Woodring. 1982. Geology and paleontology of canal zone and adjoing parts of Panama: Description of Tertiary mollusks (Pelecypods: Propeamussiidae to Cuspidariidae). United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 306(F) [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]