Puerto Libre and Puerto López, La Guajira (pg. 155) [Ware Fm]: Late/Upper Pliocene, Colombia
collected by Diezemann

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Siderastreidae
Siderastrea siderea (Ellis and Solander 1786)
unclassified
Echinodermata indet. Klein 1754
Thecostraca - Balanomorpha - Balanidae
Balanus sp. Da Costa 1778
unclassified
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
Gastropoda - Vermetidae
Petaloconchus sculpturatus Lea 1846
SUBSPECIES: Petaloconchus sculpturatus domingensis
Gastropoda - Naticidae
Natica sp. Scopoli 1777
    = Naticarius canrena Linnaeus 1758
Hendy et al. 2015
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Conidae
Conus planiliratus Sowerby 1850
SUBSPECIES: Conus planiliratus bocasensis
    = Conus sp. Linnaeus 1758
Hendy et al. 2015
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Turbinellidae
Xancus cf. validus (Sowerby 1850)
    = Turbinella sp. Lamarck 1799
Hendy et al. 2015
Bivalvia - Arcida - Arcidae
Arca (Barbatia) mauryae Olsson 1922
recombined as Barbatia mauryae
Bivalvia - Arcida - Glycymerididae
Glycymeris sp. Da Costa 1778
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostrea osculum (Pilsbry and Brown 1927)
    = Ostrea sp. Linnaeus 1758
Hendy et al. 2015
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Pecten cf. quirosensis Harris 1927
    = Pectinidae indet. Wilkes 1810
Hendy et al. 2015
Pecten (Plagioctenium) demiurgus Dall 1898
    = Argopecten sp. Monterosato 1889
Hendy et al. 2015
Pecten (Plagioctenium) laevicostatus
    = Argopecten sp. Monterosato 1889
Hendy et al. 2015
Pecten circularis Sowerby 1835
SUBSPECIES: Pecten circularis cornellanus
    = Argopecten sp. Monterosato 1889
Hendy et al. 2015
Bivalvia - Lucinida - Lucinidae
Codakia orbicularis (Linnaeus 1758)
recombined as Codakia (Codakia) orbicularis
Lucina chrysostoma Philippi 1845
    = Anodontia sp. Link 1807
Hendy et al. 2015
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
Cardium sp. Linnaeus 1758
    = Dallocardia muricata
Hendy et al. 2015
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Chamidae
Chama scheibei Anderson 1929
    = Chama sp. Linnaeus 1758
Hendy et al. 2015
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
Macrocallista sp. Meek 1876
    = Macrocallista maculata Linnaeus 1758
Hendy et al. 2015
Chione (Chione) bolivarensis Weisbord 1929
    = Chione sp. von Mühlfield 1811
Hendy et al. 2015
Chione cancellata (Linnaeus 1767)
see common names

Geography
Country:Colombia
Coordinates: 11.9° North, 71.3° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:11.8° North, 70.7° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Pliocene
Stage:Piacenzian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Late/Upper Pliocene
Age range of interval:3.60000 - 2.58000 m.y. ago
Age estimate:3.2 Ma (Sr isotope)3.4 to 2.8 Ma (Sr isotope)
Stratigraphy
Formation:Ware
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: Referred to as the "Capas de Siapana", but likely to belong to the Ware Fm, for which lithostratigraphic relationships are not reported. AGE: Stated by Bürgl to be Middle-Late Miocene, on the macrofossil biostratigraphy; placed by enterer in late Pliocene on the basis of observations on these fossils and strata. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: List representative of group of beds in local area.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "siliciclastic"
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Not translated. LITHIFICATION: Unknown.
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:biostratigraphic analysis
Collectors:Diezemann
Collection method comments: COLLECTOR: W. Diezemann, c. 1940's. REPOSITORY: INGEOMINAS, Bogota.
Taxonomic list comments:COVERAGE: Limited to characteristic fossils. NOMENCLATURE: Somewhat antiquated nomenclature, but with species-resolution identifications. Identified by Royo & Gómez (1950).
Metadata
Database number:97677
Authorizer:A. Hendy Enterer:A. Hendy
Modifier:A. Hendy Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2010-08-22 10:59:42 Last modified:2015-03-25 17:42:32
Access level:the public Released:2010-08-22 10:59:42
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
33368. H. Bürgl. 1960. Geologia de la Peninsula de la Guajira. Boletin Geologico 6(1-3):129-168 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]

Secondary references:

19909 A. J. W. Hendy, D. P. Buick, K. V. Bulinski, C. A. Ferguson, and A. I. Miller. 2008. Unpublished census data from Atlantic coastal plain and circum-Caribbean Neogene assemblages and taxonomic opinions. [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]
43760 A. J. W. Hendy, D. S. Jones, F. Moreno, V. Zapata, and C. Jaramillo. 2015. Neogene molluscs, shallow marine paleoenvironments, and chronostratigraphy of the Guajira Peninsula, Colombia. Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 134(1):45-75 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]
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]