Aquidaban, Solimões Fm. (Miocene of Brazil)

Where: Brazil (6.5° S, 69.7° W: paleocoordinates 6.8° S, 68.0° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Solimões Formation, Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)

Environment/lithology: "floodplain"; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: F. P. Wesselingh, A. Ranzi, and M.E. Räsänen. 2006. Miocene freshwater Mollusca from western Brazilian Amazonia. Scripta Geologica 133:419-437 [N. Bonuso/P. Monarrez/P. Monarrez]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 141848: authorized by Nicole Bonuso, entered by Pedro Monarrez on 02.04.2013, edited by Evangelos Vlachos

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Gastropoda
 Architaenioglossa - Ampullariidae
Ampullariidae sp. Gray 1824 apple snail
 Cerithioidea - Thiaridae
 Sorbeoconcha - Cochliopidae
? Pyrgophorus sp. Ancey 1888 snail
? Littoridina sp. Stouleyet 1852 snail
Bivalvia
 Cardiida - Sphaeriidae
Eupera sp. Bourguignat 1854 clam
 Cardiida - Tellinidae
Tellina amazonensis1 tellin clam
 Unionida - Hyriidae
Castalia ambigua1 Wesselingh et al. 2006 clam
Diplodon cf. longulus Conrad 1874 clam
Reptilia
 Crocodylia - Alligatoridae
Dinosuchus (Brachygnatosuchus) sp.2 Gervais 1876 crocodilian
 Testudines - Podocnemididae
cf. Podocnemis sp.2 Wagler 1830 river turtle
shell fragments
Mammalia
 Cingulata - Glyptodontidae
Glyptodon sp.2 Owen 1839 glyptodon
 Notoungulata - Toxodontidae
Toxodon sp.2 Owen 1837 notoungulate
 Proboscidea - Mammutidae
"Mastodon sp." = Mammut2
"Mastodon sp." = Mammut2 Blumenbach 1799 mastodon
 Cetacea - Iniidae
Inia sp.2 d'Orbigny 1834 toothed whale