Where: Manabi, Ecuador (2.7° S, 80.5° W: paleocoordinates 3.9° S, 76.3° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Santiago Facies Group, Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)
• no additional information provided
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marginal marine; lithified, coarse-grained, yellow, blue sandstone and lithified, tuffaceous, gray sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: A. A. Olsson. 1964. Neogene Mollusks From Northwestern Ecuador [A. Miller/K. Bulinski]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 60769: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Kate Bulinski on 22.05.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
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Anodontia (Lissosphaira) thalmanni Marks 1951 clam | |
"Panopea cf. coquimbensis" = Panopea abbreviata
"Panopea cf. coquimbensis" = Panopea abbreviata Valenciennes 1839 clam | |
Psammacoma lamproleuca Pilsbry and Lowe 1932 tellin clam | |
Clementia (Clementia) dariena Conrad 1855 venus clam | |
Gastropoda | |
"Conus cf. recognitus" = Conus (Pyruconus) recognitus
"Conus cf. recognitus" = Conus (Pyruconus) recognitus Guppy 1867 cone shell | |
"Cancellaria (Pyruclia) sp." = Pyruclia
"Cancellaria (Pyruclia) sp." = Pyruclia Olsson 1932 snail |