HB-751 [Tubará Fm] (Pliocene of Colombia)

Where: Colombia (10.8° N, 75.0° W: paleocoordinates 10.6° N, 74.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: From the Tubará Formation, which overlies the Las Pedices Group (Early Miocene), and is overlain by the Galapa Group (Late Miocene). AGE: Early Miocene, according Barrios (1960), but assigned by the enterer to the Early Pliocene based on more recent biostratigraphic correlations. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within section.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; siliciclastic sediments

• No paleoenvironmental data provided.
• LITHIFICATION: Unknown. LITHOLOGY: No lithologic data provided, but assumed to be siliciclastic.

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Bürgl

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• COLLECTORS: H. Bürgl. REPOSITORY: Museo Geológico Nacional, Bogota, Colombia.

Primary reference: M. Barrios. 1960. Algunos moluscos del Terciario Medio de Colombia. Boletin Geologico 6(1-3):213-306 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 133225: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 06.09.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Exhaustive for mollusca. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication, with somewhat antiquated nomenclature, and species-resolution identifications.
Bivalvia
 Arcida - Arcidae
"Arca (Senilia) chiriquensis" = Senilia
"Arca (Senilia) chiriquensis" = Senilia clam
SUBSPECIES: Arca (Senilia) chiriquiensis bolivari
 Cardiida - Veneridae
"Venus (Chione) buchivacoana" = Chione (Chione) buchivacoana, "Venus (Chione) cancellata" = Chione cancellata
"Venus (Chione) buchivacoana" = Chione (Chione) buchivacoana Hodson 1927 venus clam
"Venus (Chione) cancellata" = Chione cancellata Linnaeus 1767 venus clam
Gastropoda
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
"Turritella cartagenensis" = Turritella (Broderiptella) bifastigata cartagenensis Pilsbry and Brown 1917 turret shell
Turritella gatunensis Conrad 1857 turret shell
 Neogastropoda - Olividae
Oliva brevispira Gabb 1873 olive snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Tonnidae
"Dolium (Cadium) ringens" = Malea ringens
"Dolium (Cadium) ringens" = Malea ringens Swainson 1822 tun shell