Where: Manabi, Ecuador (1.0° N, 79.6° W: paleocoordinates 0.7° N, 78.8° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Esmeraldas Formation, Early/Lower Pliocene (5.3 - 3.6 Ma)

• AGE: Stated to be Late Miocene in text; Early Pliocene following Beu (2010). COMMENTS: thought to be equivalent to the Borbon formation of the Rio Santiago section, resting unconformably on top of conglomerate beds containing Turritella altilira and other Miocene fossils probably not greater than 300 meters in thickness overlain unconformably by massive to wellbedded brown sandstones

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•The beds at Quebrada Camarones have a low notherly to nearly horizontal dip, the cutbanks showing bare exposures sometimes rising as high as 30 feet

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, fine-grained, brown, yellow sandstone and lithified sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: A. A. Olsson. 1964. Neogene Mollusks From Northwestern Ecuador [A. Miller/K. Bulinski]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 60771: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Kate Bulinski on 22.05.2006, edited by Austin Hendy

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