Where: Manabi, Ecuador (0.2° N, 80.3° W: paleocoordinates 0.0° S, 79.5° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Jama Formation, Pliocene (5.3 - 2.6 Ma)
• Rests upon Miocene strata with a marked unconformity. Thickness is approximately 15 ft. Collection is from the upper part of Zone B.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shoreface; poorly lithified, concretionary, blue, carbonaceous sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: quarrying,
• Probably collected by current authors, though text also makes referal to faunal lists by Sheppard (1930) and a collecton of Barker.
Primary reference: H. A. Pilsbry and A.A. Olsson. 1941. A Pliocene fauna from Western Ecuador. Proceedings of the Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 93:1-79 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 51885: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 29.06.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Cardium (Trigoniocardia) cabopasadum n. sp. Pilsbry and Olsson 1941 cockle | |
"Sanguinolaria tellinoides" = Sanguinolaria (Sanguinolaria) tellinoides
"Sanguinolaria tellinoides" = Sanguinolaria (Sanguinolaria) tellinoides Adams 1850 clam | |
"Tellina (Quadrans) cognata" = Temnoconcha cognata
"Tellina (Quadrans) cognata" = Temnoconcha cognata Adams 1852 tellin clam | |
Donax dentiferus clam | |
"Mulinia pallida" = Mulinia pallida, "Mulinia camina n. sp." = Mulinia pallida
"Mulinia pallida" = Mulinia pallida Broderip and Sowerby 1829 clam
"Mulinia camina n. sp." = Mulinia pallida Broderip and Sowerby 1829 clam | |
Chione (Chionopsis) venadoensis n. sp., "Anomalocardia callistoides" = Iliochione callistoides, Tivela byronensis
Chione (Chionopsis) venadoensis n. sp. Pilsbry and Olsson 1941 venus clam
"Anomalocardia callistoides" = Iliochione callistoides Pilsbry and Olsson 1941 venus clam
Tivela byronensis venus clam | |
"Periploma planiuscula" = Periploma (Periploma) planiuscula
"Periploma planiuscula" = Periploma (Periploma) planiuscula Sowerby I 1834 clam | |
"Pecten tumbezensis" = Leptopecten tumbezensis
"Pecten tumbezensis" = Leptopecten tumbezensis d'Orbigny 1846 scallop | |
"Noetia olssoni" = Noetia (Eontia) olssoni
"Noetia olssoni" = Noetia (Eontia) olssoni Sheldon and Maury in Maury 1922 clam | |
Gastropoda | |
Turritella pasada Pilsbry and Olsson 1941 turret shell | |
Phos cocosensis true whelk | |
Bifurcium bifurcium snail |