CAS Loc. 267B. Tuberia Hill, 1 mile west of Tuberia (Miocene of Colombia)

Also known as Tubera Hill

Where: Atlantico, Colombia (10.8° N, 75.0° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 11.5° N, 70.8° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Tubera Group, Middle Miocene (16.0 - 11.6 Ma)

• Middle Miocene age based on correlation with other Caribbean fossil assemblages and by stratigraphic relations.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; poorly lithified sandstone

• No paleonenvironmental data reported, though from apparently from shallow-water siliciclastic sediments.
• Sandstone. Poorly lithified based on observation of figured specimens.

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the PRI

• Collections reposited at Cornell University (now PRI collections). Many collections collected by C.C. Anderson.

Primary reference: W. M. Ingram. 1948. New fossil Cypraeidae from the Miocene of Florida and Colombia. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 26(6):125-133 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 179635: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 22.06.2016

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Taxonomic list

• Some lists appear exhaustive, though in cases nomenclature is antiquated, though at species resolution.
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Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Cypraeidae
"Cypraea tuberae n. sp." = Muracypraea tuberae, "Cypraea andersoni n. sp." = Muracypraea andersoni
"Cypraea tuberae n. sp." = Muracypraea tuberae Ingram 1947 cowry
"Cypraea andersoni n. sp." = Muracypraea andersoni Ingram 1947 cowry