CAS Loc. 304, Santa Rosa, 4 mi. E of [Tubará Fm]: Early/Lower Pliocene, Colombia
collected by Andeson

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Buccinidae
Solenosteira hasletti Anderson 1929
synonym of Solenosteira (Fusinosteira) falconensis
Solenosteira santaerosae n. sp. Anderson 1929
recombined as Solenosteira (Fusinosteira) santaerosae
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Conidae
Conus sewalli Maury 1917
synonym of Conus (Stephanoconus) sewalli
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Cancellariidae
Cancellaria scheibei Anderson 1929
recombined as Pyruclia scheibei
Cancellaria cibarcola Anderson 1929
recombined as Cancellaria (Pyruclia) cibarcola
Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Yoldiidae
Yoldia pisciformis Brown and Pilsbry 1917
Bivalvia - Arcida - Arcidae
Arca (Scapharca) hispaniolana (Maury 1917)
recombined as Anadara (Cunearca) hispaniolana
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Tellinidae
Tellina (Eurytellina) aequiterminata (Brown and Pilsbry 1913)
synonym of Psammacoma gatunensis
Tellina (Eurytellina) cibaoica Maury 1917
recombined as Eurytellina cibaoica
Tellina dariena Conrad 1855
synonym of Eurytellina punicea
see common names

Geography
Country:Colombia State/province:Bolívar
Coordinates: 10.5° North, 75.3° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:10.3° North, 74.6° 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: 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:88307
Authorizer:A. Hendy Enterer:A. Hendy
Modifier:A. Hendy Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2009-04-06 19:15:35 Last modified:2013-11-25 13:37:23
Access level:authorizer only Released:2009-10-06 19:15:35
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]