Bayabas River, AGT2: Early/Lower Pliocene, Philippines

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Placunidae
Placuna (Ephippium) quadriangularis
Bivalvia - Lucinida - Lucinidae
Bulacanites obtusiplicatus n. gen., n. sp. Kase and Aguilar 2006
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
Dosinia (Bonartemis) stabilis
Circe sp. Schumacher 1817
Gastropoda - Neritidae
Smaragdia paulucciana
Gastropoda - Cerithiidae
Cerithium beberkirianum
Cerithium jonkeri Martin 1879
recombined as Clava (Proclava) jonkeri
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Melongenidae
Melongena gigas Beets 1941
Volema junghuhni
Volema sp. Röding 1798
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Conidae
Conus sp. Linnaeus 1758
Gastropoda - Strombidae
Strombus maximus
Strombus varinginensis
see common names

Geography
Country:Philippines State/province:Bulacan
Coordinates: 15.0° North, 121.1° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:14.9° North, 121.0° East
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:small collection
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:Tartaro
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: two beds from the lower Tartaro Formation, late Early Pliocene age from nannofossil analyses (Kameo 2005)
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: sandstone
Lithology description: fine-grained sandstone above coral bed
Environment:perireef or subreef
Geology comments: intertidal to subtidal, patchy coral mounds are also present
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:96677
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2010-06-23 06:25:12 Last modified:2010-06-23 09:25:12
Access level:the public Released:2010-06-23 06:25:12
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
32874. T. Kase and Y. M. Aguilar. 2006. Bulacanites obtusiplicatus gen. et sp. nov., a large lucinid bivalve (Mollusca) from the Pliocene of central Luzon, Philippines. Memoirs of the National Science Museum Tokyo 44:175-183 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]