Where: Colombia (11.0° N, 75.0° W: paleocoordinates 10.8° N, 74.2° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Tubará Formation, Early/Lower Pliocene (5.3 - 3.6 Ma)
• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: From the Tubará Formation, which overlies the Las Pedices Group (Early Miocene), and is overlain by the Galapa Group (Late Miocene). AGE: Early Miocene, according Barrios (1960), but assigned by the enterer to the Early Pliocene based on more recent biostratigraphic correlations. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From horizon R.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; poorly lithified siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Andeson
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
• COLLECTOR: F. Andeson, c. 1920's. REPOSITORY: California Academy of Sciences (CAS).
Primary reference: F. M. Anderson. 1929. Marine Miocene and related deposits of North Colombia. Proceedings of the Academy of Sciences 18(4):73-213 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 88298: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 06.04.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Yoldia pisciformis Brown and Pilsbry 1917 clam | |
Crassatellites berryi Spieker 1922 clam | |
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"Cyclinella gatunensis" = Cyclinella cyclica, "Pitaria cercadica" = Pitar (Pitar) cercadica, "Pitaria acutecostata" = Lamelliconcha acutecostata, "Chione (Chione) walli" = Chione walli
"Cyclinella gatunensis" = Cyclinella cyclica Guppy 1866 venus clam
"Pitaria cercadica" = Pitar (Pitar) cercadica Maury 1917 venus clam
"Pitaria acutecostata" = Lamelliconcha acutecostata Gabb 1873 venus clam
"Chione (Chione) walli" = Chione walli Guppy 1866 venus clam | |
"Tellina (Eurytellina) aequicincta" = Eurytellina aequicincta
"Tellina (Eurytellina) aequicincta" = Eurytellina aequicincta Spieker 1922 tellin clam | |
"Cardium (Trachycardium) puebloense n. sp." = Trachycardium (Dallocardia) puebloense
"Cardium (Trachycardium) puebloense n. sp." = Trachycardium (Dallocardia) puebloense Anderson 1929 cockle | |
Periploma caribana n. sp.
Periploma caribana n. sp. Anderson 1929 clam | |
Gastropoda | |
Turritella gatunensis Conrad 1857 turret shell | |
Malea ringens Swainson 1822 tun shell | |
"Distortrix simillima" = Distorsio simillima Sowerby 1850 snail | |
"Cancellaria cibarcola" = Cancellaria (Pyruclia) cibarcola
"Cancellaria cibarcola" = Cancellaria (Pyruclia) cibarcola Anderson 1929 snail | |
"Conus recognitus" = Conus (Pyruconus) recognitus, Conus molis
"Conus recognitus" = Conus (Pyruconus) recognitus Guppy 1867 cone shell
Conus molis Brown and Pilsbry 1911 cone shell | |
"Terebra sulcifera" = Terebra (Paraterebra) sulcifera, "Terebra gatunensis" = Strioterebrum gatunensis
"Terebra sulcifera" = Terebra (Paraterebra) sulcifera Sowerby 1849 auger snail
"Terebra gatunensis" = Strioterebrum gatunensis Toula 1908 auger snail | |
Oliva tuberaensis n. sp., "Oliva sayana" = Oliva (Ispidula) sayana
Oliva tuberaensis n. sp. Anderson 1929 olive snail
"Oliva sayana" = Oliva (Ispidula) sayana Ravenel 1834 olive snail | |
"Fasciolaria olssoni" = Pleuroploca olssoni Anderson 1929 true whelk
Fusinus henekeni Sowerby 1850 true whelk
Melongena propatulus n. sp. Anderson 1929 true whelk | |
Ampullaria tuberacola n. sp.
Ampullaria tuberacola n. sp. Anderson 1929 moon snail | |
Calliostoma grabaui Maury 1917 top snail |