STRI Loc. 290455B [bulk] - Puerto Lopez [lower Castilletes Fm] (Miocene of Colombia)

Also known as STRI Sample 17073B

Where: La Guajira, Colombia (11.9° N, 71.3° W: paleocoordinates 11.2° N, 68.0° W)

• coordinate based on unpublished field data

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: lower Castilletes Member (Castilletes Formation), Burdigalian (20.4 - 16.0 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Castilletes Formation, which conformably overlies the Jimol Formation (early Miocene) and is unconformably overlain by the Ware Formation. This area and nearby collections have been previously mapped as Castilletes Formaton (late Pliocene-early Pleistocene). AGE: Burdigalian, on the basis of macrofaunal composition; direct age established by extrapolation of Sr-isotope dating by enterer. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From approximately 45 m in regional section.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; unlithified siltstone

• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Unconsolidated silty matrix. LITHIFICATION: Unlithified, as determined in the field and based on museum-reposited specimens.

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: original aragonite, original calcite

Collected by Hendy in 2011

Collection methods: bulk, sieve,

• COLLECTOR: A. Hendy, 03/16/2011. REPOSITORY: Presently reposited at FLMNH, Gainesville.

Primary reference: 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]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 136908: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 06.12.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Exhaustive for mollusca. NOMENCLATURE: Not an authoritative publication, but with modern nomenclature, and species-resolution identifications.
Bivalvia
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
Mytilus sp. Linnaeus 1758 mussel
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
Crassostrea sp. Sacco 1897 oyster
 Arcida - Arcidae
 Cardiida - Tellinidae
Macoma sp. Leach 1819 tellin clam
 Lucinida - Lucinidae
Phacoides sp. Blainville 1825 clam
 Unionida - Unionidae
Unionidae indet. Rafinesque 1820 freshwater mussel
Gastropoda
 Neotaenioglossa - Calyptraeidae
Crucibulum (Dispotaea) sp. Say 1824 slipper shell
 Neogastropoda - Marginellidae
Prunum quirosense Hodson 1927 margin shell
 Neogastropoda - Muricidae
Muricidae indet. Rafinesque 1815 murex snail
Calotrophon sp. Hertlein and Strong 1951 murex snail
 Neogastropoda - Melongenidae
Melongena consors Sowerby 1850 snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Naticidae
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
Turritella matarucana Hodson 1926 turret shell
Turritella cocoditana Hodson 1926 turret shell
 Cerithioidea - Potamididae
Potamides suprasulcatus Gabb 1873 horn snail
Terebralia dentilabris Gabb 1873 horn snail