STRI Loc. 290851 - Yotoyoro [middle Castilletes Fm] (Miocene of Colombia)

Also known as STRI Sample 38516, 38517; AH140159; NH0017

Where: La Guajira, Colombia (11.9° N, 71.3° W: paleocoordinates 11.3° N, 68.6° W)

• coordinate based on unpublished field data

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: middle Castilletes Member (Castilletes Formation), Langhian (16.0 - 13.8 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: Langhian, on the basis of macrofaunal composition; direct age established by extrapolation of Sr-isotope dating by enterer. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From approximately 131 m in regional section.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal; unlithified, shelly/skeletal siltstone

• ENVIRONMENT: Very shallow marine (0-15 m), siliciclastic.
• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Unconsolidated siltstone 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, 01/25/2014. REPOSITORY: Field observations and specimens reposited at Universidad del Norte, Colombia.

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 157857: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 07.07.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Exhaustive for mollusca, but vertebrate material was a collected and is not listed. NOMENCLATURE: Not an authoritative publication, but with modern nomenclature, and species-resolution identifications.
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
Crassostrea sp. Sacco 1897 oyster
 Arcida - Arcidae
Gastropoda
 Neogastropoda - Melongenidae
Melongena consors Sowerby 1850 snail
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
Turritella matarucana Hodson 1926 turret shell
 Cerithioidea - Potamididae
Potamides suprasulcatus Gabb 1873 horn snail