Mata Cana (Oligocene of Colombia)

Also known as Mata cona

Where: Colombia (9.1° N, 75.8° W: paleocoordinates 6.9° N, 70.0° W)

When: Rupelian (33.9 - 28.1 Ma)

• Lower Oligocene; San JoseĢ ls., Field along cut rd.

Environment/lithology: marine; limestone

• peloidal micrite with microdetritus and abundant signs of bioturbation

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: C. J. Maury. 1912. A contribution to the paleontology of Trinidad. Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 15:1-112 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 205110: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 06.10.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
  -
Malacostraca
 Decapoda -
Goneplacoidea indet. MacLeay 1838 crab
Bivalvia
 Solemyida - Solemyidae
 Nuculida - Nuculidae
"Truncacila sp." = Acila (Truncacila)
"Truncacila sp." = Acila (Truncacila) Grant and Gale 1931 divaricate nutclam
 Lucinida - Lucinidae
Lucinidae indet. Fleming 1828 clam
oval
Elongatolucina sp. Gill and Little 2013 clam
Gastropoda
  -
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
high spined