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
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 Unpublished notes [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/P. Wagner]more details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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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