Where: Atlantico, Colombia (10.9° N, 75.1° W: paleocoordinates 10.2° N, 72.5° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Middle Miocene (16.0 - 11.6 Ma)
• Marl. Middle Miocene age based on correlation with other Caribbean fossil assemblages and by stratigraphic relations.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the PRI
• Collections reposited at Cornell University (now PRI collections). Many collections collected by C.C. Anderson.
Primary reference: N. E. Weisbord. 1929. Miocene Mollusca of Northern Colombia. Bulletin of American Paleontology 14(54):1-310 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/O. Alfaro]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 60683: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 20.05.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Turritella lloydsmithi Pilsbry and Brown 1917 turret shell | |
Petaloconchus domingensis Sowerby 1849 worm shell | |
Oliva cylindrica Sowerby 1850 olive snail | |
"Solenosteira cochlearis" = Solenosteira (Solenosteira) cochlearis
"Solenosteira cochlearis" = Solenosteira (Solenosteira) cochlearis Guppy 1873 true whelk Subspecies: S. cochlearis magdalenensis
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"Terebra gatunensis" = Strioterebrum gatunensis
"Terebra gatunensis" = Strioterebrum gatunensis Toula 1908 auger snail | |
Bivalvia | |
"Chione (Lirophora) latilirata" = Lirophora (Lirophora) latilirata
"Chione (Lirophora) latilirata" = Lirophora (Lirophora) latilirata Conrad 1841 venus clam Subspecies: C. (L.) latilirata colombiana
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"Scapharca grandis" = Larkinia grandis
"Scapharca grandis" = Larkinia grandis Broderip and Sowerby 1829 ark Subspecies: S. grandis colombiensis
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"Glycymeris canalis" = Tucetona pectinata canalis
"Glycymeris canalis" = Tucetona pectinata canalis Brown and Pilsbry 1911 clam Subspecies: G. canalis colombiensis
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Tucetona canalis | |
"Glycymeris lloydsmithi" = Tucetona canalis lloydsmithi
"Glycymeris lloydsmithi" = Tucetona canalis lloydsmithi Brown and Pilsbry 1917 Subspecies: G. lloydsmithi multicostata
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