Manglaralto (Oligocene of Ecuador)
Where: Guayas, Ecuador (1.9° S, 80.9° W: paleocoordinates 3.7° S, 75.6° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Oligocene (28.4 - 23.0 Ma)
• equivalent to Heath shales
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, concretionary shale
• collected from large limestone concretion in shale cliffs
Primary reference: A. A. Olsson. 1931. Contributions to the Tertiary Paleontology of Northern Peru: Part 4, The Peruvian Oligocene. Bulletins of American Paleontology 17(63) [L. Ivany/L. Ivany]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 64580: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Linda Ivany on 10.09.2006
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Taxonomic list
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Scaphopoda | |
Dentalium sp. Linnaeus 1758 tusk shell | |
Bivalvia | |
Solemya sp. Children 1823 Awning Clam | |
Pleurophopsis sp. clam | |
? Myrtaea cookei n. sp.
? Myrtaea cookei n. sp. Olsson 1931 clam | |
Thyasira sp. Lamarck 1818 clam | |
Gastropoda | |
Siphonalia sp. Adams 1863 true whelk |