Where: Manabi, Ecuador (1.0° N, 79.7° W: paleocoordinates 0.7° N, 78.9° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Esmeraldas Formation, Early/Lower Pliocene (5.3 - 3.6 Ma)
• AGE: Stated to be Late Miocene in text; Early Pliocene following Beu (2010). COMMENTS: Thought to be equivalent to the Borbon formation of the Rio Santiago section, resting unconformably on top of conglomerate beds containing Turritella altilira and other Miocene fossils probably not greater than 300 meters in thickness overlain unconformably by massive to wellbedded brown sandstones
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•The beds at Quebrada Camarones have a low notherly to nearly horizontal dip, the cutbanks showing bare exposures sometimes rising as high as 30 feet
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, fine-grained, brown, yellow sandstone and lithified sandstone
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•In this locality, fossils are found in a lens of rubble with angular chunks of hard shale or mudstone, polished pebbles of hard rocks with pieces of carbonized wood and crushed walnut.
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 60772: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Kate Bulinski on 22.05.2006, edited by Austin Hendy
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
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Scalina ferminiana Dall 1908 wentletrap | |
Crucibulum (Dispotaea) springvaleense Rutsch 1942 slipper shell
Crucibulum (Crucibulum) spinosum Conrad 1855 slipper shell
Calyptraea sp. Lamarck 1799 slipper shell | |
Turritella sp. Lamarck 1799 turret shell | |
Atrimitra mexicana Dall 1919 mitre shell | |
Neosconsia ecuadoriana, Cantharus scrupeus, Cantharus scissus, "Kelletia ecuadoriana" = Siphonalia (Kelletia), Kelletia rugosa, Metula nepele, Northia (Northia) northiae, Hanetia (Solenosteira) boggsi, Metaphos pacificus, Metaphos calathus, Antillophos grandis, Antillophos abundans
Northia (Northia) northiae Gray in Griffith & Pidgeon 1833 true whelk
Hanetia (Solenosteira) boggsi Pilsbry and Olsson 1941 true whelk | |
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Fusinus (Fusinus) terryi snail | |
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"Ancistrosyrinx cedonulli" = Cochlespira (Ancistrosyrinx) cedonulli
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Conus gypsus, Conus esmeraldus, Conus cf. patriceus, Conus cacuminatus, "Conus cf. planiliratus" = Conasprelloides planiliratus
Conus cf. patriceus cone shell
Conus cacuminatus Spieker 1922 cone shell
"Conus cf. planiliratus" = Conasprelloides planiliratus Sowerby 1850 cone shell | |
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Muricanthus ambiquus murex snail | |
Mysterostropha gyrina, "Calliotectum fischeri" = Teremachia fischeri
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Admete (Marksella) jumala, "Trigonostoma triumpha" = Ventrilia triumpha, Cancellaria (Cancellaria) cf. penita, Cancellaria (Cancellaria) esmeralda, Cancellaria cerithea, "Cancellaria (Calcarata) trochilia" = Sveltia trochilia
Cancellaria (Cancellaria) cf. penita Olsson 1942 snail | |
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Distorsio (Rhysema) clathrata Lamarck 1816 snail | |
Malea ringens Swainson 1822 tun shell | |
Dalium ecuadorium snail | |
"Cymatium (Lampusia) cf. pileare" = Monoplex pilearis
"Cymatium (Lampusia) cf. pileare" = Monoplex pilearis Linnaeus 1758 triton shell | |
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Xenophora dilecta carrier shell | |
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Polinices (Polinices) brunneus, Polinices (Polinices) panamensis, Sinum lacondamini, "Natica (Naticarius) othella" = Naticarius, Natica (Natica) ella
Polinices (Polinices) brunneus moon snail
Polinices (Polinices) panamensis moon snail | |
Serpulorbis sp. Sasso 1827 worm shell | |
Scaphander sp. Monfort 1810 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Anadara (Sectiarca) henekeni Maury 1917 ark | |
Limopsis zonalis clam | |
Anomia peruviana d'Orbigny 1846 jingle | |
"Lima (Acesta) hertleini" = Acesta
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"Pecten (Flabellipecten) cf. serviceus" = Flabellipecten, Pecten (Pecten) gordus
"Pecten (Flabellipecten) cf. serviceus" = Flabellipecten scallop | |
"Ostrea (Alectryonia) megodon" = Undulostrea megodon
"Ostrea (Alectryonia) megodon" = Undulostrea megodon Hanley 1846 oyster | |
"Lucina (Lucinoma) chiripanica" = Lucinoma chiripanica
"Lucina (Lucinoma) chiripanica" = Lucinoma chiripanica Olsson 1942 clam | |
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"Dosinia (Dosinidia) ponderosa" = Dosinia ponderosa
"Dosinia (Dosinidia) ponderosa" = Dosinia ponderosa Gray 1838 venus clam | |
Trachycardium (Phlogocardia) belcheri Broderip and Sowerby 1829 cockle | |
"Phyllodina francisca" = Tellina (Phyllodina)
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"Cardita (Cardita) cuvieri" = Cardites crassicostata
"Cardita (Cardita) cuvieri" = Cardites crassicostata Sowerby 1825 clam | |
"Nucinella cf. subdolus" = Nucinella woodii
"Nucinella cf. subdolus" = Nucinella woodii Dall 1898 Wood's Little Nut Clam | |
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"Nuculana (Jupiteria) chiriquiana" = Saccella chiriquiana
"Nuculana (Jupiteria) chiriquiana" = Saccella chiriquiana Olsson 1942 pointed nut clam | |
Scaphopoda | |
Dentalium (Fissidentalium) esmeraldum tusk shell |