STRI Loc. 290807 - Yotohoro [upper Jimol Fm] (Miocene of Colombia)

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• coordinate based on unpublished field data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: upper Jimol Member (Jimol Formation), Burdigalian (20.4 - 16.0 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Jimol Formation, which conformably overlies the Uipta Formation (early Miocene) and is conformably overlain by the Castilletes Formation. AGE: Burdigalian, on the basis of macrofaunal composition; direct age established by extrapolation of Sr-isotope dating by enterer. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From upper part of the Jimol Fm: from 60 m below Jimol/Castilletes contact.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: estuary or bay; unlithified siltstone

• ENVIRONMENT: Marginal marine (<5 m), siliciclastic.
• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Unconsolidated silty matrix. LITHIFICATION: Unlithified, as determined in the field and based on museum-reposited specimens.

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: original aragonite, original calcite

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 156369: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 19.05.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Exhaustive for mollusca. NOMENCLATURE: Not an authoritative publication, but with modern nomenclature, and species-resolution identifications.
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
Crassostrea sp. Sacco 1897 oyster
 Arcida - Arcidae