TU 1398 - Quebrada Camarones [Esmeraldas Beds] (Pliocene of Ecuador)

Where: Ecuador (1.0° N, 79.6° W: paleocoordinates 0.8° N, 78.8° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Esmeraldas Member (Onzole Formation), Early/Lower Pliocene (5.3 - 3.6 Ma)

• Esmeraldas beds, upper Onzole Formation.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep-water; poorly lithified, tuffaceous, calcareous shale

• Mixed deep water and shallow-water gravity-flows.
• Highly foraminiferal, tuffaceous shales.

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the BMNH, USNM

Collection methods: quarrying,

• COLLECTOR: E.H. Vokes and H.E. Vokes (Jan. 1981). REPOSITORY: collections reposited in the BMNH, USNM, and Tulane University (now in USNM).

Primary reference: E. H. Vokes and H. E. Vokes. 2000. Catalogue of Tulane University fossil localities. Unpublished notes [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 61239: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 01.06.2006

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Taxonomic list

• IDENTIFIER: H. Dushane (LACM). COVERAGE: taxonomic list only contains species taxonomically described in reference and other secondary references.
Gastropoda
 Epitonioidea - Epitoniidae
Sthenorytis turbinus2 Dall 1908 wentletrap
 Sorbeoconcha - Cassidae
Dalium ecuadorianum1 Olsson 1942 snail