Where: La Guajira, Colombia (12.0° 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• coordinate based on unpublished field data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 very base of Castilletes Formation, in lower member; from approximately 15 m above Jimol/Castilletes contact.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shoreface; poorly lithified, shelly/skeletal siltstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: original aragonite

Collected by Hendy in 2014

Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ),

• COLLECTOR: A. Hendy, 01/19/2014. REPOSITORY: Field observation only.

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 156328: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 18.05.2014

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