Progresso Formation: Middle Miocene, Ecuador

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Potamididae
Potamides suprasulcatus (Gabb 1873)
Gastropoda - Turritellidae
Turritella gatunensis Conrad 1857
Woodring 1959
Turritella abrupta (Spieker 1922)
Woodring 1959
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Conidae
Conus bravoi (Spieker 1922)
Woodring 1970
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
Lamelliconcha cora (Brown and Pilsbry 1911)
Woodring 1982
Chione (Chionopsis) propinqua (Spieker 1922)
Woodring 1982
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Anatinellidae
Raeta undulata (Gould 1851)
Woodring 1982
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Aequipecten plurinominis (Pilsbry and Johnson 1917)
Woodring 1982
    = Lindapecten buchivacoanus Hodson et al. 1927
Waller 2011
see common names

Geography
Country:Ecuador State/province:Guayas
Coordinates: 2.1° South, 80.5° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:2.9° South, 77.6° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:local area
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
Formation:Progreso
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Stratigraphy comments: LITHOSTRATIGRAPHU: From the Progresso Fm, which overlies the Subibaja Fm (Early Miocene). AGE: Middle Miocene. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Composite list for formation.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "siliciclastic"
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: LITHOLOGY: Unknown. LITHIFICATION: Unknown.
Environment:coastal indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some genera
Collection methods:survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: COLLECTORS: Unknown. REPOSITORY: Unknown.
Taxonomic list comments:COVERAGE: Limited to taxa miscellaneously mentioned in text. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication, with modern nomenclature, and species-resolution identifications.
Metadata
Database number:96516
Authorizer:A. Hendy Enterer:A. Hendy
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2010-06-10 13:23:17 Last modified:2021-05-14 10:11:04
Access level:authorizer only Released:2011-06-10 13:23:17
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

11306. W. P. Woodring. 1957. Geology and Paleontology of Canal Zone and adjoining parts of Panama. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 306(A) [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]

Secondary references:

37262 T. R. Waller. 2011. Neogene Paleontology of the Northern Dominican Republic. 24. Propeamussidae and Pectinidae (Mollusca: Bivalvia: Pectinoidea) of the Cibao Valley. Bulletins of American Paleontology (381)1-198 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]
11372 W. P. Woodring. 1959. Geology and paleontology of Canal Zone and adjoining parts of Panama: Description of Tertiary mollusks (gastropods: Vermetidae to Thaididae). United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 306(B):147-239 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]
13236 W. P. Woodring. 1970. Geology and paleontology of canal zone and adjoing parts of Panama: Description of Tertiary mollusks (gastropods: Eulimidae, Marginellidae to Helminthoglyptidae). United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 306(D):299-452 [A. Miller/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]